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P.E.
P.E. is on page 38 of 380 of L'Amérique
'— [...] si j'ai bien compris, Jacob n'est que le nom de famille de Monsieur le Sénateur ?
— C'est cela, dit le capitaine, légèrement impatienté.
— Oui, mais mon oncle jacob, qui est le frère de ma mère, ne s'appelle Jacob que de son prénom ; son nom de famille devrait être le même que celui de ma mère dont le nom de jeune fille est Bendelmayer !'
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L'Amérique

P.E.
P.E. is on page 13 of 380 of L'Amérique
'Lorsque, à seize ans, le jeune Karl Rossmann, que ses pauvres parents envoyaient en exil parce qu'une bonne l'avait séduit et rendu père, entra dans le port de New York sur le bateau déjà plus lent, la statue de la Liberté, qu'il observait depuis longtemps, lui apparut dans un sursaut de lumière.'
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L'Amérique

P.E.
P.E. is on page 63 of 64 of Bartleby the Scrivener
this rumor, I cannot adequately express the emotions which seize me. Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters, ​and assorting them for the flames? For by the cart-load they are annually burned.'

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Bartleby the Scrivener

P.E.
P.E. is on page 63 of 64 of Bartleby the Scrivener
'The report was this: that Bartleby had been a subordinate clerk in the Dead Letter Office at Washington, from which he had been suddenly removed by a change in the administration. When I think over this rumor, I cannot adequately express the emotions which seize me.

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Bartleby the Scrivener

P.E.
P.E. is on page 55 of 64 of Bartleby the Scrivener
'[...] surely you will not have him collared by a constable, and commit his innocent pallor to the common jail? And upon what ground could you procure such a thing to be done?—a vagrant, is he? What! he a vagrant, a wanderer, who refuses to budge? It is because he will not be a vagrant, then, that you seek to count him as a vagrant. That is too absurd.'
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Bartleby the Scrivener

P.E.
P.E. is on page 52 of 64 of Bartleby the Scrivener
'It was the circumstance of being alone in a solitary office, up stairs, of a building entirely unhallowed by humanizing domestic associations—an uncarpeted office, doubtless, of a dusty, haggard sort of appearance;—this it must have been, which greatly helped to enhance the irritable desperation of the hapless Colt.'
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Bartleby the Scrivener

P.E.
P.E. is on page 35 of 64 of Bartleby the Scrivener
' "Will you tell me any thing about yourself?"

"I would prefer not to."

"But what reasonable objection can you have to speak to me? I feel friendly towards you."

He did not look at me while I spoke but kept his glance fixed upon my bust of Cicero, which as I then sat, was directly behind me, some six inches above my head.'
Mar 20, 2026 04:49PM 2 comments
Bartleby the Scrivener

P.E.
P.E. is on page 32 of 64 of Bartleby the Scrivener
'[...] he never went any where in particular that I could learn; never went out for a walk, unless indeed that was the case at present; that he had declined telling who he was, or whence he came, or whether he had any relatives in the world [...]'
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Bartleby the Scrivener

P.E.
P.E. is on page 31 of 64 of Bartleby the Scrivener
'Suddenly I was attracted by Bartleby's closed desk, the key in open sight left in the lock.

I mean no mischief, seek the gratification of no heartless curiosity, thought I; besides, the desk is mine, told its contents too, so I will make bold to look within.'
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Bartleby the Scrivener

P.E.
P.E. is on page 28 of 64 of Bartleby the Scrivener
' "Bartleby," said I, "Ginger Nut is away; just step round to the Post Office, won't you? (it was but a three minutes walk,) and see if there is any thing for me."

"I would prefer not to."

"You will not?"

"I prefer not."

I staggered to my desk, and sat there in a deep study.'
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Bartleby the Scrivener

P.E.
P.E. is on page 27 of 64 of Bartleby the Scrivener
'Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance. If the individual so resisted be of a not inhumane temper, and the resisting one perfectly harmless in his passivity; then, in the better moods of the former, he will endeavor charitably to construe to his imagination what proves ​impossible to be solved by his judgment. Even so, for the most part, I regarded Bartleby and his ways.'
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Bartleby the Scrivener

P.E.
P.E. is on page 19 of 64 of Bartleby the Scrivener
'In this very attitude did I sit when I called to him, rapidly stating what it was I wanted him to do—namely, to examine a small paper with me. Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, "I would prefer not to." '
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Bartleby the Scrivener

P.E.
P.E. is on page 18 of 64 of Bartleby the Scrivener
'In my haste and natural expectancy of instant compliance, I sat with my head bent over the original on my desk, and my right hand sideways, and somewhat nervously extended with the copy, so that immediately upon emerging from his retreat Bartleby might snatch it and proceed to business without the least delay.'
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Bartleby the Scrivener

P.E.
P.E. is on page 9 of 64 of Bartleby the Scrivener
'[Before] the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy. First, Turkey; second, Nippers; third, Ginger Nut. These may seem names, the like of which are not usually found in the Directory. In truth they were nicknames, mutually conferred upon each other by my three clerks, and were deemed expressive of their respective persons or characters.'
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Bartleby the Scrivener

P.E.
P.E. is on page 5 of 64 of Bartleby the Scrivener
'I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. Hence, though I belong to a profession proverbially energetic and nervous, even to turbulence, at times, yet nothing of that sort have I ever suffered to invade my peace.'
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Bartleby the Scrivener

P.E.
P.E. is on page 140 of 160 of Un homme qui dort
'Tu n'as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n'apprend rien, que l'indifférence n'apprend rien : c'était un leurre, une illusion fascinante et piégée. Tu étais seul et voilà tout et tu voulais te protéger ; qu'entre le monde et toi, les ponts soient à jamais coupés. Mais tu es si peu de chose et le monde est un si grand mot'
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Un homme qui dort

P.E.
P.E. is on page 119 of 160 of Un homme qui dort
'Leurs visages maintenant te sont familiers. Ils t'identifient, ils te reconnaissent. Ils ne savent pas que ces simples saluts, ces seuls sourires, ces signes de tête indifférents sont tout ce qui chaque jour te sauve, toi qui, toute la journée, les as attendus, comme s'ils étaient la récompense d'un fait glorieux dont tu ne pourrais parler, mais qu'ils devineraient presque.'
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Un homme qui dort

P.E.
P.E. is on page 77 of 160 of Un homme qui dort
'Tu n'existes plus : suite des heures, suitedes jours, le passage des saisons, l'écoulement du temps, tu survis, sans gaieté et sans tristesse, sans avenir et sans passé, comme ça, simplement, évidemment, comme une goutte d'eau qui perle au robinet d'un poste d'eau sur un palier, comme six chaussettes trempées dans une bassine de matière plastique rose, comme une mouche ou comme une huître [...], comme un rat.'
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Un homme qui dort

P.E.
P.E. is on page 65 of 160 of Un homme qui dort
'[...] tu lis, tu es vêtu, tu manges, tu dors, tu marches, que ce soit des actions, des gestes, mais pas des preuves, pas des monnaies d'échange : ton habillement, ta nourriture, tes lectures ne parleront plus à ta place, tu ne joueras plus au plus fin avec eux. Tu ne leur confieras pas l'épuisante, l'impossible, la mortelle tâche de te représenter.'
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Un homme qui dort

P.E.
P.E. is on page 26 of 160 of Un homme qui dort
'Tu ne rejettes rien, tu ne refuses rien. Tu as cessé d'avancer, mais c'est que tu n'avançais pas, tu ne repars pas, tu es arrivé, tu ne vois pas ce que tu irais faire plus loin.'
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Un homme qui dort

P.E.
P.E. is on page 22 of 160 of Un homme qui dort
'C'est un jour comme celui-ci, un peu plus tard, un peu plus tôt, que tu découvres sans surprise que quelque chose ne va pas, que, pour parler sans précautions, tu ne sais pas vivre, que tu ne sauras jamais.'
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Un homme qui dort

P.E.
P.E. is on page 19 of 160 of Un homme qui dort
'Tu bouges pas. Tu ne bougeras pas. Un autre, un sosie, un double fantomatique et méticuleux fait, peut-être, à ta place, un à un, les gestes que tu ne fais plus : il se lève, se lave, se rase, se vêt, s'en va. Tu le laisses bondir dans les escaliers, courir dans la rue, attraper l'autobus au vol, arriver à l'heure dite, essoufflé, triomphant, aux portes de la salle [d'examen].'
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Un homme qui dort

P.E.
P.E. is on page 120 of 328 of L'Homme gribouillé
'Après la guerre, mon père a récupéré son imprimerie à Montbéliard, et recommencé à travailler. Comme beaucoup de résistants, il a poursuivi une partie de ses activités clandestines. Il a fourni en faux papiers des réfractaires à garde d'Indochine, des candidats à l'émigration en Palestine, des anti-franquistes espagnols et même quelques truands purs et durs.'
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L'Homme gribouillé

P.E.
P.E. is on page 63 of 96 of Dessous Cocanha
'Chaque paire de bottes avait son histoire, et quand on la remettait à son frère, à son enfant, à sa nièce, elle portait en elle, déjà, les milliers de pas d'une expérience, une empreinte dans laquelle glisser son pied. Mais nous voulons tracer notre propre et unique chemin, et nous nous égarons, car nos sentiers se croisent sans jamais se rendre nulle part.'
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Dessous Cocanha

P.E.
P.E. is on page 62 of 96 of Dessous Cocanha
'Alors voilà. Je crois que la richesse que nous avons sur l'île, nous la devons à la misère d'autres. Nous leur prenons tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau, ils récupérent en échange tout ce qu'il y a de plus laid.'
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Dessous Cocanha

P.E.
P.E. is on page 35 of 96 of Dessous Cocanha
'Bien sûr qu'il y a toujours eu de la beauté en tout. Mais ce n'était pas ça. Quelque chose valait plus que la beauté.'
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Dessous Cocanha

P.E.
P.E. is on page 84 of 394 of La méthode du pivert
A fun endgame puzzle: Black to move and win.

Move 39... from: Lasker - Loman, USA (sim.) 1903

https://www.chess.com/0ec1be8e-8939-4...
Mar 15, 2026 02:48AM 1 comment
La méthode du pivert

P.E.
P.E. is on page 204 of 288 of Goya
'In 18th-century Spain, etching was rarely done as art and was used more to illustrate books or topographical works. But Goya made it the medium of modernity.'
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Goya

P.E.
P.E. is on page 168 of 288 of Goya
'The Disasters of War were a first-hand report of violent and cruel political events immortalized by Goya. 80 sheets show the atrocities he had witnessed or heard about. These definitely do not glorify the struggle or take any one side, but instead present the suffering of the victims, something without precedent in the previous history of art.'
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Goya

P.E.
P.E. is on page 114 of 288 of Goya
After Napoleon abdicated, Ferdinand VII restored the Bourbon monarchy and began to persecute the liberals. War, famine and epidemics threw the country into a serious crisis.'

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Goya

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