Plume Quotes

“«En vérité, celui qui ne connaît pas la colère ne sait rien».”
― Henri Michaux, Plume: précédé de Lointain intérieur

“La fièvre fit plus d'animaux que les ovaires n'en firent jamais.”
― Henri Michaux, Plume: précédé de Lointain intérieur

“Extending his hands from his bed, Plume was astonished not to feel the wall: “Well," he concluded, "the ants must have eaten it away.” And he went back to sleep.
Shortly thereafter, his wife shook him awake: “Take a good look, lazybones! While you were so busy sleeping, someone went and stole our house!” And indeed, stretching out on every side there was nothing but solid sky. “So it goes,” he thought.”
― Henri Michaux, Plume: précédé de Lointain intérieur

“I met an oaktree: as tall as my finger, and it was suffering. Of its four leaves, two were completely yellow. The others were drooping and had no sheen.

I could discover no enemy in the neighborhood, nor any excessive competition.

Some skillful parasite must have slipped into it. An oak, so what? what's that to a parasite?

So, I ripped it out, root and dead leaves, and up you go!

It's supposed to be tenacious, but to start living again when it was that far gone, no! it hadn't learned enough for that”
― Henri Michaux, Plume: précédé de Lointain intérieur

“«Impuissance, puissance des autres»”
― Henri Michaux, Plume: précédé de Lointain intérieur