#french literature

[theoptia]

Marguerite Duras, from The Easy Life

Text ID: I was no one, I had neither name nor face. Moving through August, I was: nothing.

[metamorphesque]

— A Prayer, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

[text ID: I’m only asking for strength for my days. Teach me the art of small steps.]

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Charles-Amable Lenoir (1860-1926) "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu" ("In Search of Lost Time") Oil on canvas

[twoloversandabeachcomber]

Albert Camus and his cat, Cigarette

[20kmemesunderthesea]

In honor of Forduary.

[daweyt]

Cassandre Di Angelo, from “Thus Saith The Lord: Book II."

[arsanimarum]

Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

[chrysalistudy]

It's Sunday 🐈🍃

[averageperson888]

my book collection goes hard but it would go way harder if i actually read any of them

[philosophors]

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

— Albert Camus

[mimmixerenard]

Their name is Javert. Do not forget it, folks.

[theoptia]

Marguerite Duras, from The Lover

Text ID: to devour and be devoured,

[metamorphesque]

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

[text ID: I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.]

[kafkabot]

"The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth."

Georges Bataille

[corpsebibliophile]

"I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God."

-Albert Camus

[virgin-martyr]

And deep down, hidden away as indecent, the desire for a pleasure I've discovered on my own.

Annie Ernaux, excerpt from A Frozen Woman trans. by Linda Coverdale