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Jean Pradelle,
Julien Benda
I just didn’t know how to defend myself against other people’s ill-will.
I read Plotinus and books about mystical psychology;
At the Sorbonne, no one attended the lectures in sociology and psychology, so insipid did they seem to us.
Jean Baruzi,
René Daumal
Roger Vailland.
Marc Chadourne
Adrienne Monnier,
Pierre Claraut
Raymond Aron,
Daniel Lagache
Jean-Paul...
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phrase from Ramuz: ‘The things I love do not love each other.’
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Alain’s Eleven Chapters on Plato at Picard’s.
Jean Hippolyte.
Siegfried et le Limousin,
During one long afternoon I went on a great Journey from Assyria to Egypt, from Egypt to Greece in the galleries of the Louvre; when I came out I found a dark, wet Paris evening.
Only Sartre’s little band, which included Nizan and Herbaud, remained closed to me; they
Herbaud.
He gave me a present from Sartre – a drawing which the latter had dedicated to me and which represented ‘Leibniz bathing with the Monads.’
all three of them belonged to the highest caste, that of the Eugenes, as exemplified by Socrates and Descartes;
‘Your funny husky voice!’ he remarked another day. ‘It’s very much your own voice, but it’s husky. Sartre and I are much amused by it.’
Sartre wanted to make my acquaintance; he had suggested meeting me one evening in the near future. But Herbaud asked me not to go: Sartre would take advantage of his absence in order to monopolize the conversation.
football; or we
‘From now on, I’m going to take you under my wing,’ Sartre told me when he had brought me the news that I had passed.
Whatever happened, I would have to try to preserve what was best in me: my love of personal freedom, my passion for life, my curiosity, my determination to be a writer.
the existence of imbeciles and knaves, and even required their presence in the world: if there was nothing to attack and destroy, the writing of books wouldn’t amount to much.
He loved Stendhal as much as Spinoza and refused to separate philosophy from literature.
Dusty Answer, by Rosamund Lehmann,
