“This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.”

— Stendhal , book The Red and the Black

Tel est le malheur de notre siècle, les plus étranges égarements même ne guérissent pas de l'ennui.
Vol. II, ch. XVII
Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)

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Tel est le malheur de notre siècle, les plus étranges égarements même ne guérissent pas de l'ennui.

Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (1830)

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