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“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“La sanctuarisation de l'extrême jeunesse n'est rien d'autre que la sanctuarisation des liens de vassalité entre un homme et une femme.”
― Et si les femmes avaient le droit de vieillir comme les hommes ?
― Et si les femmes avaient le droit de vieillir comme les hommes ?
“Il m'arrive de trouver que la vie est une horrible plaisanterie. Si l'on est tant soit peu sensible, on est écorché partout et tout le temps. Sans compter ce qui peut simplement énerver, agacer à chaque instant. La télévision, un article stupide, la réflexion d'un agent ou de la concierge, il y a quelque chose qui s'affole en vous, une espèce de bête - qui a peur. Le petit écureuil dans sa roue. Alors on prend un verre comme on prend du coton, de l'ouate. Ou comme d'autres prennent des tranquillisants pour que la douleur se calme. On a tout le temps besoin de quelque chose : c'est ça l'horreur.”
― Je ne renie rien
― Je ne renie rien
“If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently. Injustice and greed would be the real thing if we lived for ever. As it is, we must hold to other things, because Death is coming. I love death - not morbidly, but because He explains. He shows me the emptiness of Money. Death and Money are the eternal foes. Not Death and Life. . . . Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. Behind the coffins and the skeletons that stay the vulgar mind lies something so immense that all that is great in us responds to it. Men of the world may recoil from the charnel-house that they will one day enter, but Love knows better. Death is his foe, but his peer, and in their age-long struggle the thews of Love have been strengthened, and his vision cleared, until there is no one who can stand against him.”
― Howards End
― Howards End
“I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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