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Top 30 Raymond Queneau Quotes (2025 Update)

Raymond Queneau Quote: “The world is not what it seems – but it isn’t anything else, either.”

1. “The world is not what it seems – but it isn’t anything else, either.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “All societies are historical.”

2. “All societies are historical.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind’s misfortune.”

3. “Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind’s misfortune.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.”

4. “Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.”

5. “Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.”

6. “True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “Rules cease to exist once they have outlived their value, but forms live on eternally. There are forms of the novel which impose on the suggested topic all the virtues of the Number. Born of the very expression and of the diverse aspects of the tale, connected by nature with the guiding idea, daughter and mother of all the elements that it polarizes, a structure develops, which transmits to the works the last reflections of Universal Light and the last echoes of the Harmony of Worlds.”

7. “Rules cease to exist once they have outlived their value, but forms live on eternally. There are forms of the novel which impose on the suggested topic all the virtues of the Number. Born of the very expression and of the diverse aspects of the tale, connected by nature with the guiding idea, daughter and mother of all the elements that it polarizes, a structure develops, which transmits to the works the last reflections of Universal Light and the last echoes of the Harmony of Worlds.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At such intersections we always encounter what we have already seen.”

8. “His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At such intersections we always encounter what we have already seen.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.”

9. “We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “Inspiration which consists in blind obedience to every impulse is in reality a sort of slavery.”

10. “Inspiration which consists in blind obedience to every impulse is in reality a sort of slavery.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “Religions tend to disappear with man’s good fortune.”

11. “Religions tend to disappear with man’s good fortune.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “The only advantage he could see in the change was that he had a small desk in his room; his capacity for isolation was thereby increased. But none of this changed his life very much. He continued his games of billiards and his reading. And was periodically overwhelmed by abominable fits of despair from which he was abruptly extricated by a ridiculous but stubborn optimism, an absurd love of life.”

12. “The only advantage he could see in the change was that he had a small desk in his room; his capacity for isolation was thereby increased. But none of this changed his life very much. He continued his games of billiards and his reading. And was periodically overwhelmed by abominable fits of despair from which he was abruptly extricated by a ridiculous but stubborn optimism, an absurd love of life.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.”

13. “It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.”

14. “Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “It doesn’t seem to me that anyone has discovered much that’s new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.”

15. “It doesn’t seem to me that anyone has discovered much that’s new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.”

16. “There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “We have come from all the countries of the world and are going to Saintes-Maries de la Mer. Nomads of the enigma, we gather there each year after having carried our mystery through ordinary countryside and fluid towns. Since we become transformed by our wanderings we are despised by those who stand still and retain a memory of giant serpents and metallic green.”

17. “We have come from all the countries of the world and are going to Saintes-Maries de la Mer. Nomads of the enigma, we gather there each year after having carried our mystery through ordinary countryside and fluid towns. Since we become transformed by our wanderings we are despised by those who stand still and retain a memory of giant serpents and metallic green.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.”

18. “Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.”

19. “The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.”

20. “One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.”

21. “Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “It is the creator of fiction’s point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.”

22. “It is the creator of fiction’s point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.”

23. “The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “All confessions are Odysseys.”

24. “All confessions are Odysseys.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.”

25. “The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn’t interested any longer. That’s very astonishing.”

26. “When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn’t interested any longer. That’s very astonishing.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “He sought an adventure but didn’t find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn’t have too much imagination.”

27. “He sought an adventure but didn’t find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn’t have too much imagination.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “The really inspired person is never inspired: he’s always inspired: he doesn’t go looking for inspiration and he doesn’t get up in arms about artistic technique.”

28. “The really inspired person is never inspired: he’s always inspired: he doesn’t go looking for inspiration and he doesn’t get up in arms about artistic technique.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.”

29. “The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “To have one’s own story told by a third party who doesn’t know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that’s a technical refinement.”

30. “To have one’s own story told by a third party who doesn’t know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that’s a technical refinement.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “Man’s usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.”

31. “Man’s usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.”

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Raymond Queneau Quote: “Spiders’ teeth are not so long as a torment that cannot be avowed.”

32. “Spiders’ teeth are not so long as a torment that cannot be avowed.”

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