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Pierre Jourde
“La réalité est tenue de se conformer au sens qu'on a d'avance déterminé pour elle. De sorte que nous évoluons dans des fictions préparées, dans ces discours formatés qui nous préservent de l'excès d'insignifiance. (...) J'espérais encore un peu, comme je l'avais fait bien souvent au cours de mes innombrables voyages vers la maison d'Auvergne, que le grand silence des steppes et le vent me baigneraient dans leur froideur régénératrice, me laveraient des approximations et des compromis, j'espérais, en foulant la terre, en effleurant de la main le grain des vieilles pierres et des écorces, le cuir rugueux des vaches, mêler mon corps à la substance même du monde. Mais je savais aussi que cela n'aurait jamais lieu. J'avais fini par comprendre que ce qui me serait donné là-haut, au plus profond des forêts, dans l'antre noir et odorant des étables, au creux des vieux chemins qui paraissent toujours s'enfoncer dans un passé oublié, ce serait une promesse, l'attente nue du miracle, la même que celle qui me tenait éveillé enfant, la veille de Noël, dans le lit froid que je partageais avec mon arrière-grand-mère. Et c'est cela qu'il fallait y chercher précisément, cette veille, cette ferveur renouvelée, brillante et coupante comme une lame, qu'aiguisaient le vent et les eaux claires.”
Pierre Jourde, Le voyage du canapé-lit

“It's the traditional religions which have removed the mystery by claiming to explain the inexplicable. Who made us? God. What happens when we die? We go somewhere else. How can we do that? Because of a part of us, called the soul, which is invisible, is also immortal. Only when a frown of doubt crossed the Christian forehead did the ancient fathers of the church begin to talk about the mystery. Having removed the mystery, they pretended to put it back ahead. What they called the mystery was the bits left over, the ragged edges of doubt, where the traditional explanations left the hearer dissatisfied. God works in mysterious ways, they said. But that was the mystery which God had been invented to remove. (...)
It's a trap to say you have to be either theist, atheist, or agnostic, because each of these positions lends a certain respectability to the word God. The theist believes in God. The agnostic isn't sure. The atheist doesn't believe in God. But which God? Each of these positions implies the meaning of the word God is intelligible - even though the believers may be murdering one another over how God should be properly described and worshipped.”
C K Stead, Death of the Body

“Tenir à la vie, d'accord, mais la tenir par la hanche et l'inviter à danser.”
Philibert Humm, Roman de gare

Penelope Mortimer
“Mrs. Bennet was fertilizing her roses. (...) She did think that, probably more than most people, they had souls. If she had been asked what she meant by a soul she would have dismissed the question as though soul were as much an ingredient of life as salt or cinnamon or baking powder.(...) The smell of her oses when she buried her nose in them was soul.”
Penelope Mortimer, The Home

Janet Malcolm
“A correspondence is a kind of love affair... tinged by a subtle but palpable eroticism. (...) It is with our own epistolary persona that we fall in love, rather than with that of our pen pal.”
Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer

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