“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 11 “We Hate Malachi Constant Because...” (p. 253)
“A series of accidents creates a positively lighthearted state.”
Source: 1980s, Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990), Chapter 4
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French sociologist and philosopher 1929–2007Related quotes
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A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it — i.e. gives it to the public.
As attributed in Susan Ratcliffe, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2011), p. 385.
A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned.
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An artist never finishes a work, he merely abandons it.
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In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished — a word that for them has no sense — but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.
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