My Body and I Quotes

“Already a system is being constructed that explains our perpetual solitude: if we remain alone among those who were supposed to be like us, it is because we cannot find any creature spontaneous enough. No one capable of equaling our primal states and enriching our existence with some magnificent and brutal enchantment.

I am alone in a covered gallery.”
― René Crevel, My Body and I

“It is because this sensation of truth provides me with a joy I would be unable to describe in human words that I believe it to be from some other world and that, through its
miracle, I can already picture myself having passed through the gates of death.”
― René Crevel, My Body and I

“why was I raised to follow the precepts of a religion that exalts sorrow and suffering? Yet my nose is as innocent as any snout. If I had been an animal I would have been very successful. But a man?”
― René Crevel, My Body and I

“It is because this sensation of truth provides me with a joy I would be unable to describe in human words that I believe it to be from some other world and that, through its miracle, I can already picture myself having passed through the gates of death.”
― René Crevel, My Body and I