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The Wild Ass’s Skin (1831), Part II: A Woman Without a Heart

I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
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Conférence de presse à Chicago, le 11 août 1966 en réponse et en excuses aux réactions outrées et violentes à travers les États-Unis suite à l’interview de l’Evening Standard.

To read a novel or see a play was to drink life through a straw — to smoke it through a filter-tip. If we were not afraid of blackening our teeth or riddling our lungs with cancer — if we were a dauntless race of men with strong digestions — we would be able to devour life without the aid of these over-civilized devices.
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The Naked Civil Servant (Fonctionnaire du nu)
“Aucun homme n'est une île en soi complète; tout homme est part du continent, une partie du tout.”
Le Testament de Corlay, 1982

The Alchemist
L'Alchimiste (O Alquimista), 1988
Variante: Quand nous avons de grands trésors sous les yeux,
nous ne nous en apercevons jamais.
... Et sais tu pourquoi?
Parce que les hommes ne croient pas aux trésors...