Author: Paul Valéry
Cited by
- Elizabeth Cooke (1)
- IN: Zeena (1996) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: They therefore set me this problem of the equality of appearances and numbers
FROM: Variations on the Eclogues, (1958), Book, France
- Curzio Malaparte (1)
- IN: The Skin (1949) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Ce qui m'interesse n'est pas toujours ce qui m'importe.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
- Catharina Hagena (1)
- IN: The Taste of Apple Seeds (2008) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: La memoire ne nous servirait a rien si elle fut rigoureusement fidele.
(Memory would be of no use to us if it were strictly truthful.)
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
- Cormac McCarthy (1)
- IN: Blood Meridian (1989) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, commited with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.
FROM: Le Yalou, (1895), Essay, France
- Vargas Llosa, Mario (1)
- IN: The Way to Paradise (2005) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: What would become of us without the help of what doesn't exist?
FROM: "Petite Lettre sur les mythes", (1929), Book, France
- Fay Weldon (1)
- IN: Chalcot Crescent (2009) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Le problème avec notre époque est que le futur n'est plus ce qu'il était.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France