Fever Quotes

“If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course, and I can’t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.”
― Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Fever

“Si vous voulez vraiment le savoir, j'aurais préféré ne jamais être né. La vie, je trouve ca bien fatigant. Bien sur, à présent la chose est faite, et je ne peux rien y changer. Mais il y a toujours au fond de moi ce regret, que je n'ariverai pas à chasser complètement, et qui gâchera tout. Maintenant, il s'agit de vieillir vite, d'avaler les années le plus vite possible, sans regarder à gauche ni à droit”
― Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio , Fever

“The world was a sick animal, a sort of huge cancerous tumour, a thing of bubbling liquids, whitish patches, dribbling pus, fantastic pimples of dead skin that grew in all directions, swelled up, became more and more like fuzzy hair. The right thing would be to go away, to vanish for ever from the face of the sun.”
― Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, Fever

“El ruido de su reloj terminó por alcanzarlo, de manera progresiva, como si hubiera una fuga de agua en la que cada gota se sumara a la anterior; a fin de construir una estalactita quese moviese e insertase milímetro a milímetro en su cerebro.”
― J.M.G. Le Clézio, La fiebre / The fever (Mar Abierto / Open Sea)