Claude Roy's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#30421
Literature is perfectly useless: its only usefulness is that it helps to live.

Claude Roy
(Défense de la littérature)

#30422
Nothing is more embarrassing that the facts: they prevent to believe what we want.

Claude Roy
(Les chercheurs de Dieu)

#30423
The novelist has many rights, including one to lie to better tell the truth.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30424
Man is the animal whose pleasure is to do what doesn't make him happy.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30425
If we were faithful to those who deserve it, you wouldn't even to oneself.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30426
The true misfortune makes the almost unimaginable joy.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30427
It is sometimes too ask, wanting to be loved for himself.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30428
Who likes discovers a little Cannibal.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30429
Fine arts, it is the closest to the creation myths; hand of the demiurge who matter, extracted forms, anime, recreates life.

Claude Roy
(Entretien avec Catherine Argand - Mai 1996)

#30430
Like you, heaven will love you.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30431
Most of the lies are politeness, even to itself.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30432
Love is kind, not only the loved, not only the lovers.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30433
It is easier to be a scientist to be a friend, a lover or a traveler. Easier to love men vaguely to love perfection one being imperfect.

Claude Roy
(Le Malheur des jours)

#30434
Knowledge is not only in books, laboratories, data sheets, but in and by friendship, men, animals and stars.

Claude Roy
(Les Rencontres des jours)

#30435
This isn't good franchise to speak ill of his friends.

Claude Roy
(Le verbe aimer)

#30436
Ornithologists are these great people who spend their lives doing what we defended them to do when they were small.

Claude Roy
(Les rencontres des jours)

#30437
Boredom is a warning that we never listen too.

Claude Roy
(Les Rencontres des jours)

#30438
An idea came to me. I would like to know where.

Claude Roy
(Les rencontres des jours)

#30439
Mind, it's like money: there are generally at the expense of others.

Claude Roy
(Les rencontres des jours)

#30440
Don't rush: it oppresses.

Claude Roy
(Les Rencontres des jours)

#30441
The time door Board: in general of nothing to do.

Claude Roy
(Les rencontres des jours)

#30442
It's a foursome: him, her, the idea of him and the idea of it.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30443
If glue ear to the door of the books and the doors of the night, we do carefully, you can hear the conversation of poets.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30444
When we lost all her illusions, there is still to lose the supreme illusion which is to believe without illusions.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30445
Unable to bear the thought of death, he killed himself.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30446
When God had created man, he was scared of what he had done. He immediately created woman as first aid.

Claude Roy
(Source inconnue)

#30447
A novel is the story of the days where a truth is emerging.

Claude Roy
(Descriptions critiques)

#30448
With love, friendship and fraternity of action, art is the shortest path from one man to another.

Claude Roy
(La Main heureuse)

#30449
The churches have need of faithful who feel guilty for not to be faced with rebels who are finding unbelievers.

Claude Roy
(Les chercheurs de Dieu)

#30450
Believing in God is an attitude that you can't refute it, or discuss, approve or blame.

Claude Roy
(Les Chercheurs de Dieu)

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