Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Julien Green
French Novelist of American Parentage, best known for Léviathan and Each in His Own Darkness
"Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants."
"Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them."
"What is real is beyond all reach. "
"The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart."
"Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there."