problems

[ara baliozian]

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?

[Guest]

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