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“Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.”
― Là-Bas
― Là-Bas
“What I really wanted wasn't fame. All I wanted was to know whether or not I should've been been born.
– Portgas D. Ace”
― ONE PIECE 巻五十九 〝ポートガス・D・エース死す〟
– Portgas D. Ace”
― ONE PIECE 巻五十九 〝ポートガス・D・エース死す〟
“No more Guernicas, no more Auschwitzes, no more Hiroshimas, no more Setifs. Hooray! But what about the impossibility of living, what about this stifling mediocrity and this absence of passion? What about the jealous fury in which the rankling of never being ourselves drives us to imagine that other people are happy? What about this feeling of never really being inside your own skin?”
― The Revolution of Everyday Life
― The Revolution of Everyday Life
“If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment”
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“Because of its increasing triviality, everyday life has gradually become our central preoccupation”
― The Revolution of Everyday Life
― The Revolution of Everyday Life
One Year In Search of Lost Time ~ 2015
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We're reading Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time in one year. It's one of the masterpieces of western literature, but it's a difficult read, in la ...more
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A room for lovers of theatre, theater books, texts on acting, directing, theory and scripts.
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Rassemblons les lecteurs francophones Que vous soyez de France, de Belgique, de Suisse, du Québec, ou de tout autre pays francophone, ou bien si vous ...more
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