Quotes by Nathalie Sarraute - Page 1

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.
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Invisible
Poetry Is
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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Reason
Reason Why
Writing
Sought
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We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.
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Happens
Willing
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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Human Beings
Humans
Steps
World
Beings
Retrace
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For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.
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Poetry
Invisible
Visible
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Art
Moving
Novel
Transforming
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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Feminist
Locked
Writing
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Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.
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Encouragement
Faith
Able
Revive
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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People
Poet
Writing
Readers
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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
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Equilibrium
Morbid
Reactions
Suspicion
Defends
Organism
Seeks
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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Banality
Industry
Media
Spheres
Television
Handicraft
Major
Lifted
Placed
Sphere
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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
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Catharsis
Concerned
Kind
Liberation
Writing
Myself Me Never
Interests
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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
Nathalie Sarraute / Writer
Opportunity
Good Opportunity
Very Good
Writing
Universities
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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
Nathalie Sarraute / Writer
Admire
Disaster
Imagine
People
Aware
Complex
Freud
Hamlet
Shakespeare
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The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
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Alive
Creative
Reader
Reading
Trying
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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Copying
Liberated
Looks
Masters
Mind
Oneself
Good Mind Look
Copy
Good Look Mind
Something Good
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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France
Heard
Impression
Novel
Week
Carrying
Dead
Produced
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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Always Trying
Immense
Literature
Universe
World
Discover
Writers
Parts
Worlds
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All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
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Everything Happens For A Reason
Psychological
Research
Unconscious
Barred
Interpretations
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It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.
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Art
Moving
Novelists
People
Art Look People
All People
Painters
Paying
Styles
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I don't for a minute think that Hitler is like Joan of Arc. But I think that at that deep level of tropisms, Hitler or Stalin must have experienced the same tropisms as anyone else.
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Levels
Minutes
Thinking
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Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a' son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.
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Eye
Psychology
Son
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Chacun peut e prouver en soi ce double mouvement: de s ir de s'inte grer a' la socie te , besoin de se re aliser par soi-me" me en dehors d'elle. We all have this double impulse within ourselves: the desire to integrate into society, and the need to fulfil ourselves outside of it, through our own efforts.
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Desire
Effort
Needs
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