It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. As it turns out, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Original text (French)
Original text (French)
I think there can be few examples of a life as dilapidated as mine.
This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.
We have psychologized like the insane, who aggravate their madness in struggling to understand it.
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