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Marc Lamot said:
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After more than 35 years I'm risking a second read. Ongoing. First review (1990)
Stylistic: very recognizable characters, but not always very consistent (real archetypes: m. de Renal, abbé de Frilair, Marquis de la Mole etc). There's a noteworthy use ...more "
“La seule chose que nous apprend la mort, (c'est) qu’il est urgent d’aimer”
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“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.”
― Civilisation
― Civilisation
“Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.”
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“We'll always have Paris.”
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“Accepter que tel ou tel être, que nous aimions, soit mort. Accepter que tel et tel, vivants, aient eu leurs faiblesses, leurs bassesses, leurs erreurs, que nous essayons vainement de recourvrir de pieux mensonges, un peu par respect et par pitié pour eux, beaucoup par pitié pour nous-mêmes, et pour la vaine gloire d’avoir aimé seulement la perfection, l’intelligence ou la beauté. Accepter qu’ils soient morts avant leur temps, parce qu’il n’y a pas de temps. Accepter de les oublier, puisque l’oubli fait partie de l’ordre des choses. Accepter de s’en souvenir, puisqu’en secret la mémoire se câche au fond de l’oubli. Accepter même, mais en se promettant de faire mieux la prochaine fois, et à la prochaine rencontre, de les avoir maladroitement ou médiocrement aimés.”
― Pellegrina e straniera
― Pellegrina e straniera
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