Top Quotes & Sayings by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French writer Pierre Drieu La Rochelle.
Last updated on October 16, 2024.
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

Pierre Eugène Drieu La Rochelle was a French writer of novels, short stories and political essays. He was born, lived and died in Paris. Drieu La Rochelle became a proponent of French fascism in the 1930s, and was a well-known collaborationist during the German occupation.

Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in one’s neighbor, in the existence of one’s neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves.
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