William Faulkner citations célèbres
Tandis que j'agonise, William Faulkner, Gallimard, 1966, 183, 1930, Du monde entier, Maurice-Edgar Coindreau
Tandis que j'agonise, 1930
Tandis que j'agonise, 1930
Tandis que j'agonise, 1930
William Faulkner Citations
Tandis que j'agonise, 1930
Tandis que j'agonise, 1930
“Ma mère n'est pas dans la boîte. Ma mère ne sent pas comme ça. Ma mère est un poisson.”
Tandis que j'agonise, 1930
“Le passé ne meurt jamais. Il n'est même pas passé.”
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
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Dans Requiem pour une nonne.
Tandis que j'agonise, 1930
William Faulkner: Citations en anglais
“She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.”
Source: The Sound and the Fury
“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”
Variante: Memory believes before knowing remembers.
[Light in August]
Source: As I Lay Dying

“Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.”
Source: Light in August
Variante: ... the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
Source: As I Lay Dying
“The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.”
Source: As I Lay Dying
“Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.”
Source: Light in August
Paris Review interview (1958)
Contexte: The two great men in my time were Mann and Joyce. You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
“Love doesn't die; the men and women do.”
Source: The Wild Palms
“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”
Variante: Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief
Source: The Wild Palms
(Ch. 6) "Old Man"; p. 160
The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] (1939)