The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

les jours.
I’ll tell you a great secret, my friend. Don’t wait for the last judgement. It happens every day.
‘La Chute’ p. 129
Aujourd’hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
Mother died today. Or perhaps it was yesterday, I don’t know.
‘L’Ètranger’ p. 9
Qu’est-ce qu’un homme rèvoltè ? Un homme qui dit non.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
‘L’Homme rèvoltè’ p. 25
Toutes les rèvolutions modernes ont abouti á un renforcement de l’Ètat.
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.
‘L’Homme rèvoltè’ p. 221
Tout rèvolutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en hèrètique.
Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
‘L’Homme rèvoltè’ p. 306
La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit á remplir un coeur d’homme. Il faut imaginer
Sisyphe heureux.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a human heart. One must imagine that
Sisyphus is happy.
‘Le Mythe de Sisyphe’ p. 168
3.22 Elias Canetti 1905—
Alles was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe.
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
‘Die Provinz der Menschen’ (1973) p. 269
3.23 George Canning 1770-1827
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch
Is offering too little and asking too much.
The French are with equal advantage content,
So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
Dispatch, in cipher, to the English Ambassador at the Hague, 31 January 1826, in Sir Harry Poland ‘Mr
Canning’s Rhyming ‘Dispatch’ to Sir Charles Bagot’ (1905)
A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country but his own.
Referring to the Jacobin, in ‘New Morality’ (1821) l. 113.
And finds, with keen discriminating sight,
Black’s not so black;—nor white so very white.
‘New Morality’ (1821) l. 199