Le travail ne représentait qu'ennui pour moi, je détestais aller au bureau. Je me sentais vraiment oppressé. J'avais l'impression que mon moi véritable se rétrécissait de plus en plus, et que j'allais finir par disparaître.
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To write a word
In the moonlight.
Pierrot, my friend!
My candle'... FOLK SONGS En effet: je mourais déjà. Je venais d'apprendre cette nouvelle horrible que tout humain apprend u... AMéLIE NOTHOMB Je t'aime Roza...je serais là pour toi. Je ne laisserais jamais rien t'arriver. Et je ne laiss... RICHELLE MEAD C’est ainsi que, par exemple, l’idée de l’Infini, qui est en réalité la plus positive de to... RENé GUéNON Mes joues creuses et mon regard perçant ne facilitent pas les choses quand il s'agit de franchir un... BJøRN GABRIELSEN Les hommes ont plus de timidité dans l'esprit que dans le cœur ; et les esclaves volontaires font ... CHARLES PINOT DUCLOS C'est bien en nous que se féconde le plus joyeux et doux jardin du monde. ÉMILE VERHAEREN Je savais qu'un afflux inespéré d'énergie l'avait levé de son lit, lui avait donné la force de ... MURIEL BARBERY Bien plus que le bruit des bottes, je crains le silence des pantoufles. THIERRY VAN HUMBEEK À quoi bon écrire ? tout s'imprime en moi et c'est peut-être la pure poésie que de se laisser im... BLAISE CENDRARS —Mais, quelle que soit l'importance de l'événement, dès qu'il est écrit sur le papier, il ne f... YōKO OGAWA D’où viennent ces influences mystérieuses qui changent en découragement notre bonheur et notre ... GUY DE MAUPASSANT Nous avons déjà parlé de la notion temporelle propre à chaque saison, l'été étant l'époque o... MARIE-CLAIRE DOLGHIN-LOYER Le malheur avait mis les habits du mensonge Ils étaient d’un beau rouge couleur du... JACQUES PRéVERT Mais elle sait que rien ne sera plus pareil, plus d'interdit, fini le frisson du mensonge qui écras... SYLVIE LE BIHAN La mémoire garde trace de chaque étape d'un voyage au long cours. Comme si le mouvement avait le r... SYLVAIN TESSON ...dans l'un comme dans l'autre cas, je me voyais obligé de passer toute ma vie en société intime... STENDHAL Jeannot la bêtise des amoureux est immense, végétale, animale, astrale. Que faire? Comment te fai... JEAN COCTEAU Sans doute te demandes-tu si je ne suis pas aigri de n'en avoir écrit aucun. Eh bien, non! Mon tale... ALEXANDRE JARDIN De leur meilleur côté tâchons de voir les choses: Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers ép... ALPHONSE KARR Ils verseront de sottes larmes et comprendront, que le créateur, en les faisant rebelles a voulu se... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Caustique ? Vous voulez dire : méchant ? Oui, je suis un peu méchant, dit Settembrini. Mon regret ... THOMAS MANN La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu'après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait... ERIC CLAPTON As-tu déjà été amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnérable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et l... NEIL GAIMAN L'idée préconçue entrave et endommage la libre et pleine manifestation de la vie psychique, que j... C.G. JUNG - Toi et ta grande cause... (Ignorant le troubadour, le sorceleur avança en titubant.) Ta grande ca... ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI - Toi et ta grande cause... (Ignorant le troubadour, le sorceleur avança en titubant.) Ta grande ca... ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI Cette qualité de la joie n’est-elle pas le fruit le plus précieux de la civilisation qui est nô... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had
time to make it shorter.
[Fr., Je... BLAISE PASCAL Ce qui commence par : "Je me hâtais de déplaire exprès, par crainte de déplaire naturellement" (... JULIEN GRACQ I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will
forgive me: that's his.
[Fr., ... THOMAS CARLYLE Tu connais l'effet que je fais au mecs: les premiers mois, ils adorent ça, que j'aille si mal et il... VIRGINIE DESPENTES Ce qui m'intéresse, c'est de savoir qui paie les Rédempteurs, pas de me débarrasser d'une poigné... GABRIEL KATZ Lorsque la confusion règne, il est facile de se rappeler cette vérité : Je ne suis ni mes pensée... ECKHART TOLLE On dit père grec, mère suisse-française... On me demande, mais alors, quelle est votre patrie? Je... GEORGES HALDAS La raison nous impose des limites bien trop étroites et nous invite à ne vivre que le connu - enco... C.G. JUNG L'objectivité, vécue dans ce rêve et dans ces visions, relève de l'individuation accomplie. Elle... C.G. JUNG Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
[Fr., Dis moi ce que tu manges, je te dira... ANTHELME BRILLAT-SAVARIN Je ne suis rien que le regard qui te voit, que cette pensée incolore qui te pense. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Du reste, la majorité des orientalistes ne sont et ne veulent être que des érudits ; tant qu’il... RENé GUéNON On peut s’expliquer facilement par là un fait que nous avons eu fréquemment l’occasion de cons... RENé GUéNON Qu'importe, mon Dieu, que je brûle toute l'éternité en enfer, si c'est ta volonté. THéRèSE DE LISIEUX Attendez!... Je choisis mes rimes... Là, j'y suis. (Il fait ce qu'il dit, à mesure.) EDMOND ROSTAND et de fines rides d'expression lui encadrent la bouche, parenthèses renfermant toute une vie de mot... JODI PICOULT Une condamnation de la vie de la part du vivant n’est finalement que le symptôme d’une espèce ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Les tentatives faites pour connaître la richesse et l'originalité des cultures humaines, et pour l... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Voilà bien la famille : même celui qui n'a pas sa place dans le monde, qui n'est ni célèbre ni r... ROBERT MUSIL [...] Et ma fièvre ? D'où vient-elle ? - Allons donc, c'est un incident sans conséquence qui... THOMAS MANN Qu'Est-ce que la mort? Un degré de plus dans le calme et deux peut-être dans le silence. ALEXANDRE DUMAS — Ce n'est pas en Egypte que je vais, répondit le Martinet. Je vais à la maison de la Mort. La M... OSCAR WILDE [A propos du faux évolutionnisme] Il s'agit d'une tentative pour supprimer la diversité des cultur... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Ni le passé, ni l’avenir ne peuvent nous accabler, puisque l’un n’existe plus et que l’autr... ALAIN Le Chat Viens, mon beau chat, sur mon coeur amoureux; Retiens les griffes de... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE La vie est un voyage solitaire et, être mariée n'y change rien. D'ailleurs je pense que le fait de... AGATHE COLOMBIER HOCHBERG Oui, lorsqu'on surveille le temps, il passe très lentement. J'aime beaucoup la température, quatre... THOMAS MANN Il parvint à la reconnaitre au milieu du tumulte et, à travers les larmes de sa douleur irrémédi... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Si tu entamais ces friandises ? Ah, les Dragées surprises de Bertie Crochue ! Un jour, quand j’é... J.K. ROWLING Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am
speaking is already far from me.
[Fr.,... NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Vous avez déjà perdu quelqu'un de proche? [...] Vous n'avez jamais l'impression que ces êtres-là... LAURENT GAUDé Le combat narcissique durerait aussi longtemps que la sociabilité elle-même, il en serait l'ultime... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Tu joues ? Oui, c'est ça, tu joues, tu t'amuses avec les gens qui t'entourent, c'est très clair à... LAURENT BETTONI Le développement des connaissances préhistoriques et archéologiques tend à étaler dans l'espace... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Le rire est tout ce que l'on voudrait être, ou plus exactement, tout ce que l'on voudrait que chacu... FRANçOISE SAGAN Faith, I know nothing about it; I am my own ancestor.
[Fr., An, ma foi, je n'en sais rien; moi je ... ANDOCHE JUNOT (DUC D'ABRANTES) "The self is hateful." But "I" is passable. ("Le moi est haïssable". - Mais le Je est passable.)” CHARLES DE LEUSSE The self is hateful." But "I" is passable. ("Le moi est haïssable". - Mais le Je est passable.) CHARLES DE LEUSSE Une catastrophe, en général et quelle que soit sa nature, s'annonce avec fracas, a son lot de sign... LUCAS VALLERIE Moi qui pour mon malheur ai toujours eu une curiosité passionnée pour les choses de l'esprit... STEFAN ZWEIG Pour la première fois de ma vie, ce "moi" semblait se partager et la découverte d'une telle dualit... FRANçOISE SAGAN
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HARUKI MURAKAMI In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An inte... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pr... HARUKI MURAKAMI When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's jus... HARUKI MURAKAMI We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time. HARUKI MURAKAMI For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long dis... HARUKI MURAKAMI All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a p... HARUKI MURAKAMI Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memori... HARUKI MURAKAMI Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to ope... HARUKI MURAKAMI And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTH... HARUKI MURAKAMI No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they... HARUKI MURAKAMI From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was... HARUKI MURAKAMI I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such... HARUKI MURAKAMI I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr... HARUKI MURAKAMI Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means... HARUKI MURAKAMI There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart. HARUKI MURAKAMI Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going for... HARUKI MURAKAMI We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpec... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. HARUKI MURAKAMI No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. HARUKI MURAKAMI Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin... HARUKI MURAKAMI She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But... HARUKI MURAKAMI sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get o... HARUKI MURAKAMI Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate... HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra... HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly... HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee... HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain. HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho... HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh... HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don... HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi... HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the... HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ... HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n... HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night... HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee... HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. W... HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died... HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear... HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial. HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or... HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ... HARUKI MURAKAMI