Julien Green

Faith means walking on the waters. ↗

— Julien Green

#faith

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed. ↗

— Julien Green

#always #am #end #i #i am

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important. ↗

— Julien Green

#because #begin #dare #important #just

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel. ↗

— Julien Green

#man #never #novel #produce #scrupulous

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper. ↗

— Julien Green

#equilibrium #exaggerating #i #i am #ink

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. ↗

— Julien Green

#enter #enters #i #mist #real

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. ↗

— Julien Green

#corners #dark #ever #fear #grownup

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. ↗

— Julien Green

#author #book #characters #escape #itself

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ↗

— Julien Green

#descends #earth #explorer #greatest #heart

What is real is beyond all reach. ↗

— Julien Green

#reach #real