Status Updates From The Peasant Marey

“I suddenly felt that I could look at these unhappy creatures with quite different eyes, and that suddenly by some miracle all hatred and anger had vanished utterly from my heart.”

“a sleeping man is not molested, and meanwhile one can dream and think.”

“And there was nothing in the world that I loved so much as the wood with its mushrooms and wild berries, with its beetles and its birds, its hedgehogs and squirrels, with its damp smell of dead leaves which I loved so much, and even as I write I smell the fragrance of our birch wood: these impressions will remain for my whole life.”

"By and by I did forget my surroundings and became imperceptibly lost in memories... I seldom evoked them consciously."

"I could never bear without disgust the wild orgies of the common people, and here in this place this was specially true."