OUR PROBLEMS
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We may be unique but our problems are not.
According to Pirandello: "If you confront a man with his own image,
there will arise a crisis."
Stendhal tells us: "Tout bon raisonnement offense."
And elsewhere he explains that, too often among the French, "conversation is the armed commerce of two vanities." It follows that, a conversation that does not conform to this condition may end up being insulting.
And speaking about vanities, listen to
Thomas Mann: "The intellectual man is almost as much interested in painful truths as the fool is in those which flatter him."
And if I were to choose a motto for myself, what could be better than
E.M. Cioran’s: "At any price, we must keep those who have too clear a conscience from living and dying in peace."
Charmant, n’est-ce-pas?
problems
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ara baliozian
, Jun 12 2001 09:43 AM
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