
“Chacun crée ce qu'il doit créer, à sa façon, comme ses dons le lui permettent.”
Ma vie, 1959
You see, with [designing] weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. [...] For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award.
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À propos de l'AK-47
“Chacun crée ce qu'il doit créer, à sa façon, comme ses dons le lui permettent.”
Ma vie, 1959
“Chaque livre est comme le pèlerinage ou la vie d’un homme : sa récompense est à la fin.”
Adieu, mon unique, 2000
Dit à la naissance du fils de Kate et William, duchesse et duc de Cambridge.
One should receive pleasures that bring contentment to the Creator. This means that the creature will want to bestow upon the Creator, and will have fear of the Creator, of receiving for oneself, since reception of pleasure - when one receives for one's own benefit - removes him from cleaving to the Creator.
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Articles
Comprendre le pouvoir. L'indispensable de Chomsky, 2006, Deuxième mouvement
(en) I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?
The Fault in Our Stars (2012), Le père de Hazel
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