“I’d like to have the chance to decide what my life will be like, I think that’s the best present anyone can get. The chance to decide what your life will be like.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“السعادة هي استمرار المرء بالرغبة بما لديه.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Men know the damage a few words can do to girls’ hearts, and, idiots that we are, we swoon away and fall into the trap, excited because at last a man has set one for us”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“كنت أعرف أن هذه النقود يمكن أن تفيدني, لكن يمكن أن تؤذيني أيضا..”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“يعرف آن الآلم يعيد رسم الوجوه ويغيّر لون العيون”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“الطمع يشعل كل شيء في طريقه.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“It's only in books that you can change your life. Wipe out everything in a stroke. Do away with the weight of things. Delete the nasty parts, and then at the end of a sentence suddenly find yourself on the far side of the world.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Being rich means seeing all that's ugly and having the arrogance to think you can change things. All you have to do is pay for it.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“يمكن لكتاب أن يغيّر شذرات من حياة وأجزاء من عبارات؛ وأن يفضي إلى إرتياد دروب غير مطروقة”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“My mother’s been living alone for over ten years. She gets up at six every morning. She makes herself a coffee. She waters her plants. She listens to the news on the radio. She drinks her coffee. She has a quick wash. An hour later, at seven, her day is over. Two months ago a neighbour told her about your blog, and she asked me to buy her one of those thingummyjigs – by a thingummyjig she meant a computer. And since then, thanks to your trimmings, your ribbon bows, your tie-backs for curtains, she’s rediscovered the joys of life. So don’t tell me you don’t know any answers.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Plein de choses nouvelles. Mais rien de différent.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“I knew in my bones that while it could do good, the money could also do harm. Greed burns everything on its path.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Yes I am loved. But I no longer love.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“لأن احتياجاتنا هي أحلامنا الصغيرة اليومية، هي اشياؤنا الصغيرة الواجب فعلها”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“حين يحب المرء أحدًا ويفقده، إذًا هو مخطئ.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“أغنّي لنفسي، بصمت، ووجهي ملتفت نحو البحر المظلم. إنني محبوبة. لكنني لم أعد أحب.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“إذا استطاع أن يقرأ روحي من النظر إلى ظهري، فهو يعرف الآن وهو يرى عيني خوفي من نفسي”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Дали хубавите неща, изживени заедно, стават грозни, защото човекът, който е радвал живота ви, ви е измамил?”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“كلما كَبُرتْ الأكاذيب، قلّ أن يرى الناس قدومها”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Plus les mensonges sont gros, moins on les voit venir.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“لم أجب قط على رسالة قاتلي. تركتها تنزلق، تفر من يدي - رفرفت الأوراق .لبرهة، وحين لامست أخيرا الأرض تحولت إلى رماد ورحتُ أضحك”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“nos besoins sont nos petits rêves quotidiens. Ce sont nos petites choses à faire, qui nous projettent à demain, à après-demain, dans le futur ; ces petits rien qu’on achètera la semaine prochaine et qui nous permettent de penser que la semaine prochaine, on sera encore vivants.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Les hommes savent les désastres que certains mots déclenchent dans le coeur des filles ; et nous, pauvres idiotes, nous pâmons et tombons dans le piége, excitées qu'un homme nous en ait enfin tendu un”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“..Holidays far apart from each other, going short of things, hours of cold and solitude? Fears? Does money cut distances short, bring people together?”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Because our needs are our little daily dreams The little things to be done that project us into tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the future; trivial things that we plan to buy next week, allowing us to think that next week we'll still be alive.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Sorrow is allowed, sorrow is advised; all we have to do is let go, all we have to do is love.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Oui, je pense que tout ce qui vient du passé n'est pas dépassé. Faire soi-même possède quelque chose de très beau; prendre le temps, c'est important. Oui, je pense que tout va trop vite. On parle trop vite. On réfléchit trop vite, quand on réfléchit! On envoie des mails, des textos sans se relire, on perd lélégance de l'orthographe, la politesse, le sens des choses. (p. 94)”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Las abuelas son mejores madres, una madre está demasiado ocupada siendo una mujer.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
“Une fois, il m'a dit que j'étais belle. Il y a plus de vingt ans et j'avais un peu plus de vingt ans. J'étais joliment vêtue, un faux air de Dior; il voulait coucher avec moi. Son compliment eut raison de mes jolis vêtements.
Vous voyez, on se ment toujours.
Parce que l'amour ne résisterait pas à la vérité.”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires
Grégoire Delacourt
Born place: in Valenciennes, France
Born date July 26, 1960
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“All Creatures exist for a purpose. Even an ant knows what that purpose is--not with its brain, but somehow it knows. Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist.”
― John (Fire) Lame Deer, quote from Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions
“I suspect, even more importantly, the aged are hidden away so that we do not remember that one day we shall all walk that path, that we shall one day grow slow and stooped.”
― J. Nozipo Maraire, quote from Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
“All men must die, it was their single common heritage. But a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from Farnham's Freehold
“От важных дел либо очень скоро в тоску впдаешь, либо наталкиваешься на уйму трудностей - всё зависит от того, какую долю ответственности на себя взвалишь.”
― Roger Zelazny, quote from Sign of the Unicorn
“It is also true that memory sometimes comes to him as a voice. It is a voice that speaks inside him, and it is not necessarily his own. It speaks to him in the way a voice might tell stories to a child, and yet at times this voice makes fun of him, or calls him to attention, or curses him in no uncertain terms. At times it willfully distorts the story it is telling him, changing the facts to suit its whims, catering to the interests of drama rather than truth. Then he must speak to it in his own voice and tell it to stop, thus returning it to the silence it came from. At other times it sings to him. At still other times it whispers. And then there are the times it merely hums, or babbles, or cries out in pain. And even when it says nothing, he knows it is still there, and in the silence of this voice that says nothing, he waits for it to speak.”
― Paul Auster, quote from The Invention of Solitude
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