Seth Messenger : William Faulkner's quotes

William Faulkner said :

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William Faulkner
(Quotes)
#14089
When adults talk to the innocence of children, they don't know really what they are talking about.

William Faulkner
(Les larrons, 1962)


#14090
I'll give you this watch not you'd remember the time, but well so that you forget it now and then for a moment, and so that you don't waste your time trying to conquer it.

William Faulkner
(Le Bruit et la Fureur, 1929)


#14091
No war is never won. They are never even fought. Battlefield doesn't reveal to man his madness and his despair.

William Faulkner
(Le bruit et la fureur, 1929)


#14092
The victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

William Faulkner
(Le bruit et la fureur, 1929)


#14093
The clocks are killing time. The time is dead as long as he is driven by small COGS. When the clock stops, then only time comes back to life.

William Faulkner
(Le bruit et la fureur, 1929)


#14094
I'm used to the words for a long time. I know that even the word "love" is like all the others: just a form to fill a void.

William Faulkner
(Tandis que j'agonise, 1930)


#14095
Sin, love, hatred are sounds that people who have never sinned, never loved, never feared use to represent what they never had and will never have.

William Faulkner
(Tandis que j'agonise, 1930)


#14096
The man of little known over his fellows.

William Faulkner
(Lumière d'août, 1932)


#14097
I know that evidence is a man-made mistake to justify to his eyes and the eyes of others his lechery and his madness.

William Faulkner
(Au-delà, 1933)


#14098
The young authors of today have forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can give beautiful lyrics. Because there is only this that deserves to be written, which deserves all this pain and all this sweat.

William Faulkner
(Discours pour le Prix Nobel de Littérature, 1950)


#14099
I believe that man will not just continue, he will prevail. He is immortal, not only because it is the only creature to have an inexhaustible voice, but also because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice; and because he is able to withstand anything.

William Faulkner
(Discours pour le Prix Nobel de Littérature, 1950)


#14100
The privilege of the writer is to help the man to endure everything by elevating his heart, reminding him the courage, honor, hope, pride, compassion, mercy and the sacrifices that make the glories of its past.

William Faulkner
(Discours pour le Prix Nobel de Littérature, 1950)


#14101
Poets are not interested by the facts, but only by the truth. Their truth is so unwavering that even those who hate the poets by simple natural instinct are exalted as terrified of them.

William Faulkner
(La ville, 1950)


#14102
We failed to reach our dreams of perfection. I so judge us according to our admirable failure to achieve the impossible.

William Faulkner
(Interview pour Paris Review, 1958)


#14103
Those who want to be a writer read the critics, those who want to write don't have time to read the reviews.

William Faulkner
(Interview pour Paris Review, 1959)


#14104
Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something after him who could be immortal.

William Faulkner
(Interview pour Paris Review 1959)


#14105
A man is the sum of his own misfortunes.

William Faulkner
(Le Bruit et la fureur)


#14106
He believed that it was loneliness that he tried to escape, and not himself.

William Faulkner
(Lumière d’août)


#14107
The words are like acorns... Each of them does not an oak tree, but if you plant enough, you will probably get an oak sooner or later.

William Faulkner
(Source inconnue)


#14108
Battlefield made that reveal to man his madness and despair, and victory is never only the illusion of philosophers and fools.

William Faulkner
(Le Bruit et la fureur)


#14109
Is there anything more vulgar than nicknames. There is in the people they give.

William Faulkner
(Le bruit et la fureur)


#14110
It's sad in love, is that love cannot last forever, but despairs that it causes are soon forgotten.

William Faulkner
(Monnaie de singe)


#14111
Women aren't that genitals articulated and endowed with the ability to spend all the money we have.

William Faulkner
(Moustiques)


#14112
Sex and death - the front door and the door of the world.

William Faulkner
(Monnaie de singe)


#14113
Big, to be ninety-nine percent of work.

William Faulkner
(Interview - 1957)


#14114
Looks like that man can bear anything. Even what he did not. Even the idea that he can't take much more.

William Faulkner
(Lumière d'août)


#14115
The supreme wisdom is to dream big enough to not lose the look while we're after them.

William Faulkner
(Sartoris)


#14116
Those who can act and those who cannot, and suffer enough of not being able to write.

William Faulkner
(L'invaincu)


#14117
Memory believes before that knowledge does not remember.

William Faulkner
(Lumière d'août)


#14118
The horses are not women, even a Mare is a species of man.

William Faulkner
(Source inconnue)


#14119
Between grief and nothing, I choose grief.

William Faulkner
(Si jet'oublie Jérusalem, 1939)


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mandarin : 你的预感 | french : Mon Ange | english : My angel | mandarin : 拉兰德 | spanish : Una corazonada de ti | german : Neuigkeiten hinter der Scheibe. | english : To the wrath of the righteous | french : Une intuition de toi | french : Qui est Seth Messenger ? | mandarin : 正义的愤怒 | english : You would like to read more? | french : Mon nom est Pierre | french : Patience | english : A hunch of you | english : The Wait | german : Wer ist Seth Messenger? | german : Mein Engel | english : New beginning | german : Die Lande | spanish : Mi nombre es Peter | german : Auf die Wut des Gerechten | spanish : La Lande | french : Aux colères du juste | spanish : ¿Quién es Seth Messenger? | english : My name is Pierre | mandarin : 来自玻璃后面的消息 | spanish : Va a pasar cerca de ti. | french : Ca arrivera près de chez vous | spanish : Nuevo comienzo | german : Neuer Anfang | english : Who is Seth Messenger? | mandarin : 耐心 | english : The Moor | german : Geduld | spanish : Paciencia | english : It's going to happen near you | mandarin : 我的天使 | french : La Lande | spanish : A la ira de los justos | mandarin : 我叫彼得 | spanish : Noticias desde detrás del cristal | english : News from behind the glass | mandarin : 你想多读些吗? | german : Mein Name ist Pierre. | german : Möchten Sie mehr lesen? | french : Nouveau départ | spanish : Mi ángel | french : Vous aimeriez en lire d'avantage ? | german : Es wird in Ihrer Nähe passieren. | mandarin : 赛斯信使是谁? | french : Des nouvelles de derrière la vitre | spanish : ¿Le gustaría leer más? | german : Eine Ahnung von dir | mandarin : 它会发生在你附近。 | mandarin : 新开始 |
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