Everyone Dies Young Quotes

“we know perfectly well that all was not paradise at the time of our earliest loves; what we wish for, even in knowing the vanity of this wish, is to return there now with our emptiness, our desires, and our imagination.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“Nostalgia or the height of bad faith: when its target is time, it performs a ruthless selection; forgetfulness is its secret and particularly effective weapon, a sharp knife that cuts ever deeper into the layers of memory and invents a past that never existed.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“Five minutes before his death, Monsieur de La Palisse was still alive.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“retirement is actually considered to be a kind of liberation and rebirth, an opportunity finally to take time to live—to live without counting, to take one’s time without further concerns about age.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“to be old is to be alive, and the signs of age are also the signs of life.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“Out of sight, out of body, there is nothing, there is no longer anything. And the words that humans invented to make themselves believe there was something, first of all the word “death” itself, fraught with terror and hope, only conceal the nothingness.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“(the other and the past coexisted there from the beginning),”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“I age, therefore I live. I have aged, therefore I am.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“Witness the diversity of an unpredictable self that seems to repeat and reproduce itself exactly but that can also take me by surprise, outstrip and escape me.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“We no longer have a simple relationship with our own bodies, with ourselves.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“We must read and reread; the relationship with a text is alive. A book that does not get old is a book from which the reader can always expect something new, in which he can always discover something, a book that thus demonstrates to him that it is forever alive, that their fates are joined and the two of them are united “for life and till death.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“We must read and reread; the relationship with a text is alive.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“the long years with no more shared adventures, in which age makes itself felt more heavily and in which, without the author’s romantic ingenuity, forgetfulness might have consumed everything, or nearly so.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“Are time and patience still virtues?”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“The ages of life can be evoked independently from the progression that advancing age implies, by means of anticipation, which lays out a future, or memory, which recreates the past, and in any case, by letting the imagination play with time.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“Thus in the plural use of the word “age” there is an element of optimism, in sharp contrast to its use in the singular, which identifies it with an inevitability, a fate with no future”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“On the whole, it is less the sequence of ages that holds his attention than the general feeling of a kind of fatality:”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“The stereotype of the bourgeois couple to which the motif of the ages of life corresponds becomes a well-oiled machine: each generation pushes the next one toward the exit.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“lineage is only the normal marker of passing time.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“A symbolic way of coming full circle in a world where representations of heredity express a substantial form of continuity between generations in other respects as well.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it. We could even say that the author will no longer belong to himself either—which corresponds to the most modest and ambitious of dreams he is able to formulate and to the wisest and wildest illusion he can maintain: to ignore age and let time run its course. To write is to die a little, but a little less alone.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“thus frame the evocation of a nonlinear time in which the after can be richer and more precise than the before, a time that remains in the face of time that passes, a time that provides pleasure and happiness.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“despite the wounds from which he still suffers, the author of Reveries displays a remarkable serenity here; it is the calm after the storm, the evening glow, the feeling perhaps that despite everything, something was accomplished.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“it enhances the mixture of presence and escape that constitutes his “ecstasies,”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“Could I but end my days in this charming isle, without evermore stirring from it, or seeing a single inhabitant of the continent, who could remind me of all those calamities which have for so many years united to overwhelm me!…”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“Writing plays the role of ritual when ritual is effective and manages to give those participating or attending the feeling that it reopens time.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“a relationship with time that removes all relevance from the distinction between memory and forgetting, something like a rediscovery or, as in the case of the ritual when it is successful, a renewal.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“The writing of autobiography or memoir is comparable to the effect of time on ruins: it works by means of subtraction and selection.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age

“something that locates them at a distance from aging and the passing time:”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age