The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
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It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.Georges Simenon
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
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Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food.
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I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
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I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
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If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.
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