Albert Cohen

Quotes

• “Alone dwells every man and everyone mocks everyone else, and a deserted island is our pain.”
• “Yes, the words, the land of my birth, they console me and compensate, but they would not bring me my mother back.”
• “Go away, image of my living mother, full of life, as I saw her in France for the last time. Go away! My mother's ghost.”
• “In my solitude I sing to myself a sweet lullaby, as sweet as my mother used to sing to me.”
• “I say to myself that her small hands are no more worm, and that I would never again carry them soft to my front.”
• “Never again I would know her slow kisses which are hardly felt. Never again the ringing mourning bells, songs of the dead that we loved.”

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Key facts

Born

Abraham Albert Cohen , August 16, 1895, Corfu , Kingdom of Greece

Died

October 17, 1981 (1981-10-17) (aged 86), Geneva , Switzerland

Occupation

Novelist

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Official website

www.albertcohen.gr

Image

AlbertCohen-Lycée Thiers Marseille 1909.jpg

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