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Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Claude Simon

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French novelist Claude Simon.

Last updated on April 18, 2025.

Claude Simon

Claude Simon was a French novelist, and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature.

French - Novelist | October 10, 1913 - July 6, 2005

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In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'

Claude Simon

Claude Simon

There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.

Claude Simon

Claude Simon

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it. — © Claude Simon

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.

Claude Simon

Claude Simon

Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.

Claude Simon

Claude Simon

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

Claude Simon

Claude Simon

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