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)
Citations sur crible
Une collection de citations sur le thème de crible, hommes, homme, pluie.
Citations sur crible
Octave Gréard
(1828–1904) pédagogue et universitaire français
L'Éducation des femmes par les femmes, 1885, Madame de Maintenon
Joyce Mansour
(1928–1986) écrivaine britannique
Prose, Dolman le maléfique, 1961
Julien Gracq
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Liberté grande
Liberté grande, 1946