“In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.”
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
“I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.”
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