“Write: try meticulously to retain something: extract a few precise scraps from the void that is widening, leave, somewhere, a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs”
, thus defined the famous writer and verbicrucist, Georges Perec in
Espèce spaces
in 1974. Many writers have left a trace of their thought, from their poetry to literature.
All these inherited phrases constitute the French literary heritage.
Some of them left an impression on us.
From Victor Hugo, to whom we owe these moving verses
“Tomorrow, from dawn”
, to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, for whom
“we only see clearly with the heart, the essential is invisible to the eyes”
.
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Quotes imprinted in our minds
Some of these words are written in our diary, in an old notebook.
We find them underlined in our bedside book, several pages of which are dog-eared.
These few lines help us express the depths of our heart or our thoughts.
Like Montaigne, we can say about a strong friendship
“because it was him, because it was me”
.
Or it is better to have
“rather a well-shaped head than a very full one”
.
Corneille teaches us the art of understatement with his verse:
“Go, I don’t hate you.”
To whom do we owe the phrase
“the curve of your eyes goes around my heart”
?
Who is the writer who began his book with this incipit
“it started like that”
?
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