Julien Gracq Quotes

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

Floating high on the waters of catastrophe

And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?

On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.

...a redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared its nocturnal mysteries.