May 2009
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Measure of wisdom.— Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in...
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, tr. by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, t.2, §348, 1879. [French translation]
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Le film qu’il faut voir, le livre qu’il faut lire en ce moment, m’y refuser me...
– Le blog de Éric Chevillard / billet 521
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For over a year I went at it every day, building up a hefty pile of pages, about...
– Paul Auster, Man In The Dark, New York: Henry Holt, 2008, p. 13
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L’écrivain n’a nullement besoin d’avoir vécu ce qu’il raconte s’il sait du moins...
– Le blog de Éric Chevillard / § 537
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Home medicine is a big industry these days. A recent network survey by one of...
– Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine. Tales of Shame and Degradation in the ‘80’s, New York: Simon&Schuster Paperbacks, (1988) 2003, p. 27.
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Wertheimer, as he always said, had gone into the human sciences, I had begun my...
– Thomas Bernhard, The Loser, tr. by Jack Dawson, New York: Vintage Books, [1983]1991, p.6
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Similar to a scare originally found in Cambodia back in 2005, victims of a new...
– BBC NEWS | Europe: “EU quarantines London in swine flu panic”