The Devil in the Flesh Quotes

“Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“ We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from familiarity.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Instinct is ourguide; a guide which leads to our fall.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Happiness thinks only of itself.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Is the selfishness of children really so different from our own? During the summer in the country we curse the rain, while the farmers are crying out for it.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Không gì thu hút người ta hơn tình yêu. Người ta vốn không lười biếng bởi vì khi si tình người ta mới lười biếng. Tình yêu cảm nhận một cách mơ hồ rằng sự giải khuây thực sự độc nhất của nó là sự làm việc. Vì vậy tình yêu xem sự làm việc như một đối thủ, và nó không chịu đựng được một việc làm nào cả. Nhưng tình yêu là tính biếng nhác tốt lành, giống như cơn mưa mềm cho cây cỏ tươi tốt.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“What distresses us is not loosing life, but losing what gives it meaning.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Ce mot d'amour était sublime d'enfantillage. Et, quelles que soient les passions que j'éprouve dans la suite, jamais ne sera plus possible l'émotion adorable de voir une fille de dix-neuf ans pleurer parce qu'elle se trouve trop vieille.”
― Raymond Radiguet, Le Diable au corps

“The flavour of that first kiss disappointed me, like fruit you taste for the first time. It's not in new things that we experience the greatest pleasure, but in habit.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“True premonitions grow in depths where our thoughts never go. And sometimes they make us do things whose meaning we totally misunderstand.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Instinct is our guide; a guide that leads to ruin.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“To contemplate death calmly only makes sense if we do it alone. Death as a couple isn’t death, not even for unbelievers. What distresses us is not losing life, but losing what gives it meaning. When a loved one is our life, what difference is there between living together and dying together?”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“In her unworldly voice she thanked them for finally understanding her. She reminded me of a female pirate captain alone on the deck of her sinking ship.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Might becomes apparent only through injustice.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“And yet love must afford many advantages, I reflected, because men put their freedom in its hands. I was in a hurry to be strong enough to dispense with love, and thus not have to give up any of my desires. I didn’t realize that on the scale of subjugation, it is far better to be a slave to your heart than to your senses.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Nothing is more absorbing than love. You don’t have time to be idle, because, being in love, you are idle. Love is vaguely aware that its only real distraction is work. So it regards it as a rival. And a rival is one thing it won’t tolerate. Yet love is a benign form of idleness, like soft refreshing rain.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Cette nuit des hôtels fut décisive, ce dont je me rendis mal compte après tant d'autres extravagances. Mais si je croyais que toute une vie peut boiter de la sorte, Marthe, elle, dans le coin du wagon de retour, épuisée, atterrée, claquant des dents, compris tout. Peut-être même vit-elle qu'au bout de cette course d'une année, dans une voiture, follement conduite, il ne pouvait y avoir d'autre issue que la mort.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Talora succede che questa somiglianza morale si estenda al piano fisico. Sguardo, andatura: più volte degli sconosciuti ci scambiarono per fratello e sorella. Ci sono infatti in noi germi di somiglianza che è poi l’amore a sviluppare. Un gesto, un’inflessione della voce tradiscono prima o poi anche gli amanti più accorti.
Se è vero che il cuore ha ragioni che la ragione non conosce, ciò accade perché quest’ultima è meno ragionevole del nostro cuore. Probabilmente siamo tutti dei Narcisi che amano e detestano la propria immagine, ma a cui qualunque altra è indifferente. È proprio questo istinto della somiglianza a guidarci nella vita, gridandoci “alt!” davanti a un paesaggio, a una donna o a una poesia. Possiamo ammirarne altri, ma non sentiamo la medesima scossa. L’istinto della somiglianza è l’unica linea di condotta che non sia artificiale. Tuttavia in società solo gli spiriti volgari sembreranno non peccare contro la morale, inseguendo sempre lo stesso tipo.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“J'aime mieux, murmura-t-elle, être malheureuse avec toi qu'heureuse avec lui.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“But nothing is further from reality than the things that are right in front of us. A man who has almost died imagines he is acquainted with death. Yet when he finally meets it he doesn’t recognise it: “That’s not death,” he says with his dying breath.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Power only mainfests itself when used unjustly.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“desire to be alone in my own bed at home would unexpectedy seize hold of me, make me see how unbearable life together would be. Yet I couldn’t imagine living without Marthe. I was beginning to undergo the punishment for adultery.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“My love made everything more complex. Just as I misinterpreted the things that Marthe said, thinking I was giving them deeper meaning, I analysed her silences. Perhaps I’d always been mistaken; a certain impact, which can’t be described, tells us we’ve hit the nail on the head. My joys, my fears were more intense. Lying beside her, a desire to be alone in my own bed at home would unexpectedy seize hold of me, make me see how unbearable life together would be. Yet I couldn’t imagine living without Marthe. I was beginning to undergo the punishment for adultery. I”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“En büyük zevk ilk kez hissedilen şeylerden değil, alışılmış şeylerden alınır.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“She gave a start and, rubbing her eyes, she smothered me with kisses, like someone you love who you find in bed after dreaming they have died.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“It was then I realized that no one can escape his age, and that my dangerous contempt had melted like ice the moment someone was kind enough to show they cared about me, and in a way that suited me.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Cunoșteam prea bine comoara vorbelor pe care nu le spui niciodată celor pe care îi iubești, de teama de a nu părea copilăros, pentru a nu mă teme, în ceea ce o privește pe Marta, de această pudoare dezolantă, așa că sufeream că nu-i pot pătrunde sufletul.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh

“Een slordig man die spoedig sterven zal maar daar geen vermoeden van heeft, begint plotseling orde op zaken te stellen. Zijn leven verandert. Hij rangschikt zijn papieren. Hij staat vroeg op, hij gaat tijdig naar bed. Met zijn zondig leven is het afgelopen. Zijn omgeving is er gelukkig om. En zo schijnt zijn wrede dood des te onrechtvaardiger.”
― Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh