“The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide …”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Dionysian-Dithyrambs
Dionysian-Dithyrambs (1888)
“What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.”
Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part...
Le Petit Prince (1943)
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