Raymond Radiguet Professions : Novelist Born : June 18, 1903 Died : December 12, 1923 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Raymond Radiguet Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing. Raymond Radiguet funny-basketball originality trying Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ? Raymond Radiguet differences love-is lying In my incoherence I was grateful that for a few moments I had known what it was to suffer-or so I thought. But nothing is less like a thing that that which is closest to it. A man who had been near to death thinks how he knows death. When the day finally comes for him to meet it, he does not recognise it. 'This is not it,' he says, as he dies. Raymond Radiguet grateful men thinking The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. Raymond Radiguet leaving giving lying It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure. Raymond Radiguet novelty pleasure habit We should imitate the great classics. We would miss, and that miss would be our originality. Raymond Radiguet would-be missing writing Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
