J’ étais prétentieux, disait l’un de mes professeurs ; farfelu, disaient mes camarades, à l’exception de mon ami Claude Laurent (car j’aimais et aimerai l’amitié et aurai toujours des amis). Il m’a donc fallu apprendre à devenir indifférent à l’opinion d’autrui.
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CHLOé DELAUME [...] Et ma fièvre ? D'où vient-elle ? - Allons donc, c'est un incident sans conséquence qui... THOMAS MANN Quoi qu’il en soit, Leibnitz ne sut jamais s’expliquer nettement sur les principes de son calcul... RENé GUéNON Et ces deux âmes, sœurs tragiques, s'envolèrent ensemble, l'ombre de l'une mêlée à la lumière... VICTOR HUGO Bien des choses se sont détachées de moi. J'ai survécu à certains désirs; j'ai perdu des amis, ... VIRGINIA WOOLF Bien des choses se sont détachées de moi. J'ai survécu à certain désirs; j'ai perdu des amis, l... VIRGINIA WOOLF J'ai perdu ma force et ma vie, Et mes amis et ma gaieté; J'ai perdu jusqu'à la fierté ALFRED DE MUSSET Les défauts de l'âme sont comme les blessures du corps: quelque soin qu'on prenne de les guérir, ... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Comment des sociétés contemporaines, restées ignorantes de l'électricité et de la machine à va... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Il faut beaucoup de bravoure pour faire face à ses ennemis mais il n’en faut pas moins pour affro... J.K. ROWLING Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Les tentatives faites pour connaître la richesse et l'originalité des cultures humaines, et pour l... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Les hommes extrêmement heureux, et les hommes extrêmement malheureux a , sont également portés �... MONTESQUIEU La monnaie est souvent mythifiée, conçue comme magique et obscure. Son ambivalence fondamentale fa... EMMANUEL TODD La civilisation occidentale s'est entièrement tournée, depuis deux ou trois siècles, vers la mise... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Reprenant une goulée de cervoise, le capitaine s’essuya les lèvres avec sa manche, se pencha ver... CYRILLE MENDES Tu n’es encore pour moi qu’un petit garçon tout semblable à cent mille petits garcons. Et je n... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Regardez mon enfant, voyez l'éclat de ses boucles folles et son sourire pareil à un vol de papillo... JODI PICOULT Parce qu'il y a certaines habitudes qui deviennent vitales. Aussi futiles soient elles, elles devien... CAMILLE L. Si, bien avant la puberté, et parfois même dès sa toute petite enfance, elle nous apparaît déj�... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Combien de gars se sont arrêtés de boire comme des trous à l'âge de vingt ans pour empêcher un ... TERRY PRATCHETT C'est donc la proportion existante entre la somme des capitaux et celle des revenus qui détermine p... ADAM SMITH Un mot exprime à lui seul ce double caractère, solitaire et inconnaissable, de toute chose au mond... CLéMENT ROSSET Il n'y a que deux ou trois crimes à faire dans le monde, dit Curval, et, ceux-là faits, tout est d... MARQUIS DE SADE Tu joues ? Oui, c'est ça, tu joues, tu t'amuses avec les gens qui t'entourent, c'est très clair à... LAURENT BETTONI Quant à moi, maintenant, j'ai fermé mon âme. Je ne dis plus à personne ce que je crois, ce que j... GUY DE MAUPASSANT Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est p... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Poésie, philosophie et théologie naissent de l'affrontement lucide à l'injustifiable qu'aucune ac... CHRISTIAN DUQUOC Il faut longtemps cultiver un ami avant qu'il réclame son dû d'amitié. Il faut s'être ruiné dur... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Corto à lui même: Ce serait bon de vivre dans une fable. Bouche Dorée à Corto: Oh oui!… M... HUGO PRATT Il défendait une théorie : les couples ne fréquentent pas les célibataires. D'abord parce que le... LAURENT BETTONI Avec quelque spontanéité que nous obéissions à la voix qui nous dicte cette abnégation, nous se... ÉMILE DURKHEIM Savoir qu'aucun jour n'est semblable à un autre, et que chaque matin comporte son miracle particuli... PAULO COELHO Une condamnation de la vie de la part du vivant n’est finalement que le symptôme d’une espèce ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE L'humanité aura à répondre un jour, non seulement des actes des hommes malfaisants, elle aura aus... JEAN ROSTAND L'idée préconçue entrave et endommage la libre et pleine manifestation de la vie psychique, que j... C.G. JUNG Don Juan : [...] Les voilà, mes spectres, les spectres de ce que je ne suis pas. Ce sont eux qui me... HENRY DE MONTHERLANT Nous avons déjà parlé de la notion temporelle propre à chaque saison, l'été étant l'époque o... MARIE-CLAIRE DOLGHIN-LOYER Tu finiras sûrement par le trouver le truc qui leur fait si peur, à eux tous, à tous ces salauds ... LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE Vivre sans lecture c'est dangereux, il faut se contenter de la vie, ça peut amener à prendre des r... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Le montant des dépenses mondiales de publicité et de sponsoring approchait 600 milliards de dollar... JEAN GADREY On dit père grec, mère suisse-française... On me demande, mais alors, quelle est votre patrie? Je... GEORGES HALDAS C'est tellement impudique, tu nous racontes tellement, je me retrouve à chaque page, mise à nu, di... LAURENT BETTONI – Bah alors, c’est ce que je dis, avec la dotation qu’on a, ajouta Făneață puis il se leva... CăLIN TORSAN Voyager, c'est vivre dans toute la plénitude du mot; c'est oublier le passé et l'avenir pour le pr... ALEXANDRE DUMAS Tout le monde voulait être dans le coup ce jour-là. Car, ce jour-là, on allait écrire l'Histoire... THOMAS KENEALLY Joseph Voilà c'que c'est, mon vieux Joseph Que d'avoir pris la plus jolie Par... GEORGES MOUSTAKI Je préfère la compagnie de gredins pleins d'humour à celle de grincheux lecteurs des Saintes Ecri... JUNEYD Nous consommons ressources naturelles, énergie et matières premières comme si elles étaient des ... MARCEL LéGER La variété des manifestations de la vie suffit à l'éblouissement. Il n’y a qu'à jeter l’oei... SYLVAIN TESSON - Aimer, c'est toujours dangereux, Martin ! Aimer, c'est espérer tout gagner en risquant de tout pe... GUILLAUME MUSSO Ah ! cher ami, que les hommes sont pauvres en invention. Ils croient toujours qu'on se suicide pour ... ALBERT CAMUS Il pouvait à peine placer un mot tellement ça l'excitait de vivre. JACK KEROUAC La raison nous impose des limites bien trop étroites et nous invite à ne vivre que le connu - enco... C.G. JUNG Le génie de l'oeuvre de Rowling réside non seulement dans son art de raconter des histoires, mais ... BASSHAM GREGORY Tout l'intérêt des fanfics, c'est de jouer avec l'univers de quelqu'un d'autre, d'en modifier les ... RAINBOW ROWELL Le parti national-socialiste avait fait un fameux cadeau à ces SS-là : ils pouvaient marcher au co... THOMAS KENEALLY Voila bien la différence entre le singe et le footballeur. Le premier a trop de mains ou pas assez ... PIERRE DESPROGES Le sentiment du vide, qui correspond à l'absence complète de tout sentiment. C'est un sentiment su... PIERRE JANET As-tu déjà été amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnérable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et l... NEIL GAIMAN S'ils se mettent à penser à vous, c'est à votre torture qu'ils pensent qu'ils songent aussitôt l... LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE —Mais, quelle que soit l'importance de l'événement, dès qu'il est écrit sur le papier, il ne f... YōKO OGAWA Voilà bien la famille : même celui qui n'a pas sa place dans le monde, qui n'est ni célèbre ni r... ROBERT MUSIL
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GABE PAUL Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it. JEAN PAUL This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only... PAUL O'NEILL Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks ag... PAUL BEGALA I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could... PAUL WALKER By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits ou... SEAN PAUL The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it... PAUL WELLER It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission an... PAUL HAWKEN The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. JEAN PAUL Traditionally, our ancestors boiled mushrooms in water to make a soothing tea. Boiling served severa... PAUL STAMETS Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. PAUL WHITEMAN In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n... PAUL DIRAC It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" -- not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only y... PAUL GOODMAN The look of a king is itself a deed. JEAN PAUL A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its... PAUL DAVIES You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ... PAUL NEWMAN There still seems to be a lack of film for the baby boomer generation, if you'd like to call it ... PAUL EENHOORN As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores... PAUL KRUGMAN Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly the... PAUL VALERY Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives PAUL WELLSTONE I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our ... RAND PAUL I prize something that feels authentic. It's an undefinable thing, but I know it when I see it, ... PAUL GREENGRASS Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to... PAUL DAVIES While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England ... PAUL HARRIS I know you are, but what am I? As Pee-Wee Herman PAUL REUBENS Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national ... PAUL WEST I'm a science guy. I'm a geek. I love geology and botany and marine science. I thought maybe... PAUL WALKER Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity. PAUL RYAN We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capabl... PAUL KRUGMAN Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit. PAUL MARSDEN Our border security is laughable. PAUL GOSAR While Secretary Napolitano may be gone, she will not be forgotten. Her inaction and incompetence on ... PAUL GOSAR Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform. RAND PAUL The consequences of Fast and Furious are higher crime and more deaths. I remain committed to seeing ... PAUL GOSAR We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; bu... PAUL CELLUCCI There's a little war in progress here. There won't be anything left of the place if it goes on at th... PAUL BOWLES Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and em... PAUL JOHNSON I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four b... PAUL GASCOIGNE Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it's ... RAND PAUL Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers... PAUL BERG And some families from southern Egypt are still fluent in the language. AGHASON PAUL The apostles of Christ set about on mission throughout the world and St Mark evangelist went to Egyp... AGHASON PAUL The Coptic Church is spread around the world, we came to Brazil quite late. AGHASON PAUL He will give his blessing to the whole of Brazil. AGHASON PAUL In 'The Next Three Days,' even though it was a prison breakout movie, I was asking myself, &... PAUL HAGGIS