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“J'aime à m'étendre auprès des morts pour prendre ma mesure.”
― Mémoires d'Hadrien
― Mémoires d'Hadrien
“Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? "We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.”
― The Instructions
― The Instructions
“La patronne étant là, j'ai dû la baiser, mais c'était bien par politesse.”
― Oeuvres romanesques
― Oeuvres romanesques
“Quant à nous, si nous étions forcés à l'option entre les barbares de la civilisation et les civilisés de la barbarie, nous choisirions les barbares.”
― Les misérables
― Les misérables
“You are the mess in messiah.”
― The Instructions
― The Instructions
Jean-Da’s 2025 Year in Books
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