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“Once again, without explaining anything, they understood that they must leave. Go away before this world woke up and continued with a life from which they were forever excluded.”
― Andreï Makine, The Life of an Unknown Man

“Dans une contraction de texte, en cinquième, Marielle Bouzumat finit une phrase en bas de page et plaça le point à la page suivante : "Je n'avais plus la place", dit-elle entre deux clameurs de joie de la salle. A mon objection qu'un point n'a pas de surface, elle réplique : "Ceux de la géométrie, non, mais les vrais si.”
― Beatrix Beck, L'Enfant Chat

“There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, It Had to Be You

“The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being.”
― Andreï Makine, The Life of an Unknown Man