Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
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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 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.
Georges Simenon
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Georges Simenon
If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.
Georges Simenon
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
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