Students sat at my feet absorbing my wisdom
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Je t’oublierai, je t’oublie déjà
(Elle 🙂 Je me souviendrai de toi comme de l’horreur de l’oubli
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I remember everything
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Si je prenais soin d’une douce gazelle
“I never nursed a dear gazelle, to glad me with its soft black eye. — But when it came to know me well —… and love me, it was sure to die.” (Thomas More, Lalla Rookh,1817)
It seems so commercial to think of money at a time like this
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Pauvre Anna Karénine
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Je ne voulais pas !
—Because I’ve been working for a living.
—What do you do when you’re not working for a living?
—I live.
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C’est bête
That’s tough
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death…
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Et si rien ne peut ramener la splendeur
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass…
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Ni la gloire des fleurs
… of glory in the flower,
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.
(Wordsworth)
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What’s useless is never beautiful
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C’est foutu
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J’aimerais pouvoir
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40 !
Where does the love go, Frozen to grief ?
(Lucy Larcom, “Snow bloom” 1880)
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What’s wrong with nostalgia?
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Life is so short
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Comme c’est triste
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We’re all miserable
