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Top 20 Georges Perec Quotes (2024 Update)

Georges Perec Quote: “Question your tea spoons.”

1. “Question your tea spoons.”

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Georges Perec Quote: “The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming – what should I do? – with an answer taking shape: nothing.”

2. “The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming – what should I do? – with an answer taking shape: nothing.”

— Georges Perec

Georges Perec Quote: “To want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep. To let yourself be carried along by the crowds, and the streets. To follow the gutters, the fences, the water’s edge. To walk the length of the embankments, to hug the walls. To waste your time. To have no projects, to feel no impatience. To be without desire, or resentment, or revolt.”

3. “To want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep. To let yourself be carried along by the crowds, and the streets. To follow the gutters, the fences, the water’s edge. To walk the length of the embankments, to hug the walls. To waste your time. To have no projects, to feel no impatience. To be without desire, or resentment, or revolt.”

— Georges Perec

Georges Perec Quote: “Chess is a fathead and feudal game.”

4. “Chess is a fathead and feudal game.”

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Georges Perec Quote: “It seems we only sleep well in our own bed.”

5. “It seems we only sleep well in our own bed.”

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Georges Perec Quote: “If you do not keep on sorting your books, your books unsort themselves.”

6. “If you do not keep on sorting your books, your books unsort themselves.”

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Georges Perec Quote: “It is on a day like this one, a little later a little earlier that you descover without surprise that something is wrong that you don’t know how to live and you will never know.”

7. “It is on a day like this one, a little later a little earlier that you descover without surprise that something is wrong that you don’t know how to live and you will never know.”

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Georges Perec Quote: “I have neither one nor the other, and that has been going on for so long now that I have stopped wondering whether it is hate or love which gives us the strength to continue this life of lies, which provides the formidable energy that allows us to go on suffering, and hoping.”

8. “I have neither one nor the other, and that has been going on for so long now that I have stopped wondering whether it is hate or love which gives us the strength to continue this life of lies, which provides the formidable energy that allows us to go on suffering, and hoping.”

— Georges Perec

Georges Perec Quote: “This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?”

9. “This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?”

— Georges Perec

Georges Perec Quote: “Vivir es pasar de un espacio a otro sin golpearse.”

10. “Vivir es pasar de un espacio a otro sin golpearse.”

— Georges Perec

Georges Perec Quote: “I re-read the books I love and I love the books I re-read, and each time it is the same enjoyment, whether I re-read twenty pages, three chapters, or the whole book: an enjoyment of complicity, of collusion, or more especially, and in addition, of having in the end found kin again.”

11. “I re-read the books I love and I love the books I re-read, and each time it is the same enjoyment, whether I re-read twenty pages, three chapters, or the whole book: an enjoyment of complicity, of collusion, or more especially, and in addition, of having in the end found kin again.”

— Georges Perec

Georges Perec Quote: “Above all, they had the cinema. And this was probably the only area where they had learned everything from their own sensibilities.”

12. “Above all, they had the cinema. And this was probably the only area where they had learned everything from their own sensibilities.”

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Georges Perec Quote: “People who choose to earn money first, people who put off their realplans until later, until they are rich, are not necessarily wrong. People who want only to live, and who reckon living is absolute freedom, the exclusive pursuit of happiness, the sole satisfaction of their desires and instincts, the immediate enjoyment of the boundless riches of the world – such people will always be unhappy.”

13. “People who choose to earn money first, people who put off their realplans until later, until they are rich, are not necessarily wrong. People who want only to live, and who reckon living is absolute freedom, the exclusive pursuit of happiness, the sole satisfaction of their desires and instincts, the immediate enjoyment of the boundless riches of the world – such people will always be unhappy.”

— Georges Perec

Georges Perec Quote: “What they liked in things they called luxury was only the money behind them; they loved wealth before they loved life.”

14. “What they liked in things they called luxury was only the money behind them; they loved wealth before they loved life.”

— Georges Perec

Georges Perec Quote: “Despite the Saint-Nectaire, this analysis would be absolutely reasonable if it did not sin grievously by omission.”

15. “Despite the Saint-Nectaire, this analysis would be absolutely reasonable if it did not sin grievously by omission.”

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Georges Perec Quote: “A gap will yawn, achingly, day by day, it will turn into a colossal pit, an abyss without foundation, a gradual invasion of words by margins, blank and insignificant, so that all of us, to a man, will find nothing to say.”

16. “A gap will yawn, achingly, day by day, it will turn into a colossal pit, an abyss without foundation, a gradual invasion of words by margins, blank and insignificant, so that all of us, to a man, will find nothing to say.”

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Georges Perec Quote: “Enthusiasm is no state of mind for a historian.”

17. “Enthusiasm is no state of mind for a historian.”

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Georges Perec Quote: “Madame Altamont was leaving for a holiday. With her characteristic concern for propriety and orderliness, she emptied her refrigerator and gave the left-overs to the concierge: two ounces of butter, a pound of fresh green beans, two lemons, half a pot of redcurrant jam, a dab of fresh cream, a few cherries, a port of milk, a few bits of cheese, various herbs, and three Bulgarian-flavour yoghurts.”

18. “Madame Altamont was leaving for a holiday. With her characteristic concern for propriety and orderliness, she emptied her refrigerator and gave the left-overs to the concierge: two ounces of butter, a pound of fresh green beans, two lemons, half a pot of redcurrant jam, a dab of fresh cream, a few cherries, a port of milk, a few bits of cheese, various herbs, and three Bulgarian-flavour yoghurts.”

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Georges Perec Quote: “No, you are not the nameless master of the world, the one on whom history had lost its hold, the one who no longer felt the rain falling, who did not see the approach of night. You are no longer the inaccessible, the limpid, the transparent one. You are afraid, you are waiting. You are waiting, on Place Clichy, for the rain to stop falling.”

19. “No, you are not the nameless master of the world, the one on whom history had lost its hold, the one who no longer felt the rain falling, who did not see the approach of night. You are no longer the inaccessible, the limpid, the transparent one. You are afraid, you are waiting. You are waiting, on Place Clichy, for the rain to stop falling.”

— Georges Perec

Georges Perec Quote: “To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.”

20. “To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.”

— Georges Perec

Georges Perec Quote: “Who, on seeing a Parisian apartment house, has never thought of it as indestructible? A bomb, a fire, an earthquake could certainly bring it down, but what else? In the eyes of an individual, of a family, or even a dynasty, a town, street, or house seems unchangeable, untouchable by time, by the ups and downs of human life, to such an extent that we believe we can compare and contrast the fragility of our condition to the invulnerability of stone.”

21. “Who, on seeing a Parisian apartment house, has never thought of it as indestructible? A bomb, a fire, an earthquake could certainly bring it down, but what else? In the eyes of an individual, of a family, or even a dynasty, a town, street, or house seems unchangeable, untouchable by time, by the ups and downs of human life, to such an extent that we believe we can compare and contrast the fragility of our condition to the invulnerability of stone.”

— Georges Perec

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