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Top 20 Nathalie Sarraute Quotes (2025 Update)

Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Nathalie Sarraute

Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.”

2. “Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.”

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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.”

3. “For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.”

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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Nathalie Sarraute

Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.”

5. “Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.”

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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “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.”

7. “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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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.”

8. “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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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “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.”

9. “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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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “One can’t write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don’t like poetry.”

10. “One can’t write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don’t like poetry.”

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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.”

11. “Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.”

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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “We’re swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.”

12. “We’re swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.”

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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “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.”

13. “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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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “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.”

14. “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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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “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.”

15. “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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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “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.”

16. “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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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “I think it’s very painful, and that it’s better not to have any doubts. I envy those who don’t have any; I envy them a lot. They are happy people.”

17. “I think it’s very painful, and that it’s better not to have any doubts. I envy those who don’t have any; I envy them a lot. They are happy people.”

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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.”

18. “Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.”

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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “One can’t write without having read – you have to read before beginning to write – and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.”

19. “One can’t write without having read – you have to read before beginning to write – and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.”

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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.”

20. “Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.”

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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “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.”

21. “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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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “The novel moves like all the arts. It’s transforming itself all the time.”

22. “The novel moves like all the arts. It’s transforming itself all the time.”

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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “I have never sought the reason why I write.”

23. “I have never sought the reason why I write.”

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Nathalie Sarraute Quote: “What I tried to do was to show certain inner “movements” by which I had long been attracted; in fact, I might even say that, ever since I was a child, these movements, which are hidden under the commonplace, harmless appearances of every instant of our lives, had struck and held my attention.”

24. “What I tried to do was to show certain inner “movements” by which I had long been attracted; in fact, I might even say that, ever since I was a child, these movements, which are hidden under the commonplace, harmless appearances of every instant of our lives, had struck and held my attention.”

— Nathalie Sarraute

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