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Top 15 Blaise Cendrars Quotes (2025 Update)

Blaise Cendrars Quote: “Humanity lives in its fiction.”

1. “Humanity lives in its fiction.”

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Blaise Cendrars Quote: “I’m not an extraordinary worker, I’m an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.”

2. “I’m not an extraordinary worker, I’m an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.”

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Blaise Cendrars Quote: “Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress...”

3. “Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress...”

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Blaise Cendrars Quote: “The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.”

4. “The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.”

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Blaise Cendrars Quote: “A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.”

5. “A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.”

— Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars Quote: “Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.”

6. “Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.”

— Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars Quote: “Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.”

7. “Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.”

— Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars Quote: “Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.”

8. “Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.”

— Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars Quote: “Je suis triste et malade. Peut-etre a cause de Vous, peut-etre a cause d’un autre. Peut-etre a cause de Vous.”

9. “Je suis triste et malade. Peut-etre a cause de Vous, peut-etre a cause d’un autre. Peut-etre a cause de Vous.”

— Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars Quote: “My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe.”

10. “My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe.”

— Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars Quote: “Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery.”

11. “Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery.”

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Blaise Cendrars Quote: “Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.”

12. “Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.”

— Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars Quote: “A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.”

13. “A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.”

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Blaise Cendrars Quote: “I used the word ‘prose’ in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.”

14. “I used the word ‘prose’ in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.”

— Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars Quote: “Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait.”

15. “Life The machine The human soul A 75mm breech My portrait.”

— Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars Quote: “If one wants to live one is better to incline towards imbecility than intelligence, and live only in the absurd. Intelligence consists of eating stars and turning them into dung. And the universe, at the most optimistic estimate, is nothing but God’s digestive system.”

16. “If one wants to live one is better to incline towards imbecility than intelligence, and live only in the absurd. Intelligence consists of eating stars and turning them into dung. And the universe, at the most optimistic estimate, is nothing but God’s digestive system.”

— Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars Quote: “A man returns to die, between four walls, with the dawn, a collar of iron around the neck, to the withers, the tongue hanging... as on the Goya print.”

17. “A man returns to die, between four walls, with the dawn, a collar of iron around the neck, to the withers, the tongue hanging... as on the Goya print.”

— Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars Quote: “Feelings flake off and fall in dust. The senses, vitrified, can no longer experience pleasure; they crack at the least provocation. Each of us, within, was as if devoured by a conflagration, and our hearts were no more than a pinch of ashes. Our souls were laid waste. For a long time now we had believed in nothing, not even in nothingness.”

18. “Feelings flake off and fall in dust. The senses, vitrified, can no longer experience pleasure; they crack at the least provocation. Each of us, within, was as if devoured by a conflagration, and our hearts were no more than a pinch of ashes. Our souls were laid waste. For a long time now we had believed in nothing, not even in nothingness.”

— Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars Quote: “One’s life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d’you know, it’s most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.”

19. “One’s life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d’you know, it’s most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.”

— Blaise Cendrars

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