“This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.”
Cette vie est un hôpital où chaque malade est possédé du désir de changer de lit.
XLVIII: "Anywhere out of the world" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Anywhere_out_of_the_world
Le Spleen de Paris (1862)
Source: On Wine and Hashish
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Cette vie est un hôpital où chaque malade est possédé du désir de changer de lit.
Le Spleen de Paris
Le spleen de Paris (1862)
Source: On Wine and Hashish
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