Julien Green quotes

Julien Green was an American novelist and diarist who wrote primarily in French. His works explored themes of faith, identity, and forbidden desire, often set against the backdrop of the American South and France. He achieved recognition as the first non-French national to be elected to the Académie française. Here are 10 of his quotes:

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper. (Julien Green)
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. View quote
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Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. View quote
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I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. View quote
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The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. View quote
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Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there. View quote
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The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important. View quote
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The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed. View quote
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Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write. View quote
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A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel. View quote
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Julien Green

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: September 6, 1900
Died: August 13, 1998
Quotes count: 10

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