Corentin Jean-paul

“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”
― Émile Michel Cioran

“Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.”
― Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

“One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."

(Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary