L'amour pour lui, pour le corps humain, c'est de même un intérêt extrêmement humanitaire et une puissance plus éducative que ...toute la pédagogie du monde!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the courage to consider myself an artist..., in the great and ancient sense of that word ... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,... for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a young lady called Gloria Who was had by Sir Gerald Du Maurier... And then by six men And Sir Gerald again And the band of the Waldorf-Astoria.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don Diègue: Rodrigue, have you any courage? Don Rodrigue: If you weren't my father, you would have a taste of it on the spot.... ("Rodrigue, as-tu du coeur?" "Tout autre que mon père/L'éprouverait sur l'heure.")LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whereas the child is chiefly playful and experimental, the adult focuses on specific and conscious experiences. He practices selec...tive inattention to the objects for which he has no immediate use and develops a kind of tunnel vision that helps him to move toward selected goals. This focusing on a limited range of experiences and goals is largely responsible for one's individual evolution and gives a deep and almost tragic significance to a statement made by Albert Camus in his novel La Chute: "Après un certain âge tout homme est responsable do son visage." An almost identical statement appears as the last entry in George Orwell's notebooks: "At 50, everyone has the face he deserves." There could not any more absolute affirmation of belief in personal responsibility for the quality of one's own life and character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new haut ...monde in letters and making up the public's mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »