Jessica

“Athées: Noms que les théologiens donnent assez libéralement à quiconque ne pense pas comme eux sur la divinité, ou ne la croit pas telle qu’ils l’ont arrangée dans le creux de leurs infaillibles cerveaux. En général un athée c’est tout homme qui ne croit pas au dieu des prêtres.”
― Baron d'Holbach, La Théologie portative ou Dictionnaire abrégé de la religion chrétienne

“One senses that Hegel was possible only in German, and finds it natural that Locke in a language where large and red precede apple should have arrived at the thing after sorting out its sensory qualities, whereas Descartes in a language where grosse et rouge follows pomme should have come to the attributes after the distinct idea.”
― Hugh Kenner

“I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There's a proverb, a maxim, that runs, 'The dead man is dead; let's give a hand to the living.' Now, you say that to a man from the North, and he visualizes the scene of an accident with one dead and one injured man; it's reasonable to let the dead man be and to set about saving the injured man. But a Sicilian visualizes a murdered man and his murderer, and the living man who's to be helped is the murderer.”
― Leonardo Sciascia, To Each His Own