La Conversation Quotes

“That intersection between dream and reality is what I am attempting to capture here, akin though it is to trying to pinpoint the origin of the Iliad, or what would later become the Roman Empire, or Michelangelo’s Moses, or the theory of gravitation. Nonetheless,”
― Jean d'Ormesson, The Conversation: The Night Napoleon Changed the World

“By becoming emperor, I would once more put myself above my state.”
― Jean d'Ormesson, The Conversation: The Night Napoleon Changed the World