I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
Original text (French)
Original text (French)
A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.
Few bipeds, from Adam's time down, have been worthy of the name of man.
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