L'Avenir n'est à personne Quotes

“Faith means walking on the waters.”
― Julien Green, L'Avenir n'est à personne: Journal

“I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. I don't want to go on playing in a world where everyone cheats. Where everyone cheats - not only men and women, but sometimes even God.”
― Julien Green, L'Avenir n'est à personne: Journal

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and reports what he has observed. He never lives on the surface but only inhabits the darkest regions”
― Julien Green, L'Avenir n'est à personne: Journal

“Oare cunosc si altii spaima de-a merge pe-o strada gandindu-te cu deznadejde la toate strazile pe care nu te afli, strazile unde cei care ar vrea sa te cunoasca te asteapta si pleaca, nevazand pe nimeni venind?”
― Julien Green, L'Avenir n'est à personne: Journal