Quotes by Marcel Schwob

"Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you."
— Marcel Schwob
"As masks are the sign that there are faces, words are the sign that there are things. And these things are the sign of the incomprehensible."
— Marcel Schwob
"May your course not run from one end to the other; for such a course does not exist; but may every step you take mark a redressed projection. With your left foot you shall wipe out the footprint of your right foot."
— Marcel Schwob
Marcel Schwob

Mayer André Marcel Schwob, known as Marcel Schwob (23 August 1867 – 26 February 1905), was a French symbolist writer best known for his short stories and his literary influence on authors such as Jorg...