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I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

— François Mauriac The Rough Guide to Germany (2004)

J’aime tellement l’Allemagne que je suis heureux qu’il y en ait deux.

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Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures.

The myth of Prometheus means that all the sorrows of the world have their seat in the liver. But it needs a brave man to face so humble a truth.

Le Nœud de vipères (1932)

One can touch a living soul through a curtain of vice and crime no matter how dense and dark: but vulgarity is an insurmountable barrier.

Le Nœud de vipères (1932)

What makes a poet is, surely, the love of these things, a desperate search for the tiny ray of sunshine which used to flicker on the floor of a child’s bedroom.

Préséances (1921)

Où finit la correction? Où commence le martyre? Dans l'entre-deux, des milliers d'enfants peuplent un enfer qui ne fait pas de bruit.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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