January 2009
22 posts
“Come now, don’t be impatient, I’ll give you some more peanuts, a...”
– Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant - found at the ever-excellent A Journey Round My Skull (via feedly)
“I went to the Jardin du Luxembourg. The weather was magnificent. I found that I...”
– from the diary of an obscure 19th-century Parisian medical student, Victor Audouin, via
Intimate diaries and banal letters live on in France’s library of secrets -
Europe, World - The Independent
“Le bonheur est une monstruosité ! punis sont ceux qui le cherchent.”
– Aphorismes - Gustave Flaubert - Arléa
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“Segalen’s death at the age of forty-one remains a mystery: his body was...”
– Victor Segalen - NYRB
