Quotes by Raymond Queneau

Raymond Queneau

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

Creation

Iliad

Rehabilitation

All confessions are Odysseys.

Confession

Odyssey

All societies are historical.

Historical

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

Ascending

Doe

Men

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

Character

Fiction

Historical Value

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind’s misfortune.

Culture

Study

Wisdom

It doesn’t seem to me that anyone has discovered much that’s new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

Iliad

Odyssey

Seems

It is the creator of fiction’s point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

Character

Interesting

Views

It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.

Concerned

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

Education

Ideas

Knowledge Learning

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Ascending

Character

Concerned

Confession

Creation

Culture

Disappear

Disorder

Doe

Dream

Education

Ends

Epic

Events

Fall

Fiction

Hero

Historical

Historical Value

Hunger

Ideas

Identity

Iliad

Important

Inspiration

Interesting

Knowledge Learning

Love Story

Men

Modern

Odyssey

Party

People

Personality

Rare Moments

Rehabilitation

Religion

Running

Seems

Sides

Singing

Stories

Study

True Story

Ulysses

Views

Waiting

War

Wisdom

Work

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Quotes by Raymond Queneau

Raymond Queneau

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

All confessions are Odysseys.

All societies are historical.

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

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind’s misfortune.

It doesn’t seem to me that anyone has discovered much that’s new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

It is the creator of fiction’s point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

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