TagLa Vie Mode d’Emploi

Space is a doubt: I have constantly to mark it, to designate it. It’s never mine, never given to me, I have to conquer it.

Georges Perec – La Vie Mode d’Emploi

Life is too short to be small.

Georges Perec – La Vie Mode d’Emploi

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

Georges Perec – La Vie Mode d’Emploi

Memories are like coins in the devil’s purse: when you open it you find only dead leaves.

Georges Perec – La Vie Mode d’Emploi

To live is to pass from one space to another, while doing your very best not to bump yourself.

Georges Perec – La Vie Mode d’Emploi

We think we’re escaping and we run into ourselves. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

Georges Perec – La Vie Mode d’Emploi

I set out to trap the world and all I trapped were moments.

Georges Perec – La Vie Mode d’Emploi

Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.

Georges Perec – La Vie Mode d’Emploi

The puzzle is that there is no puzzle: the problem is that there is no problem.

Georges Perec – La Vie Mode d’Emploi

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Georges Perec – La Vie Mode d’Emploi