Nathalie Sarraute Quotes
Nathalie Sarraute Quotes
- 1
All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
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- 2
I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
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- 3
I have never sought the reason why I write.
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- 4
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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- 5
It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
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- 6
Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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- 7
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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- 8
One can't write without having read-you have to read before beginning to write-and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
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- 9
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
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- 10
Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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- 11
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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- 12
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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