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Raymond Queneau Quotes: The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
         

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.


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Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.



There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.



Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.



Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.



The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.



The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.



To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.



When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.



A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.



All confessions are Odysseys.

All confessions are Odysseys.





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