« I cannot thank my parents enough for deliberately choosing to live in the country so that their children grow up in the wild. My father agreed for years to take two hours of train to his office »

« Evanoui, singing the rooster, in the shadows galloped a strange procession: that of the returnees, the recently disappeared, the dead without burial and the souls of the bad dead. Riding in the dark, led by a giant, the army of the stumbled called "maisnie Hellequin" terrified the living whom it harassed with nightmares and apparitions in the form of evanescent ghosts or bodily returnors. "Kyrie Eleison..." `Lord, take pity...` More problematic were the wandering souls lost between the two worlds, who appeared among the living in order to seek their help. The common man was powerless to rescue them. "Kyrie Eleison..." The members of the Maisnie Hellequin and in particular the dead in distress were, on the other hand, the great affair of this monastery, a real house of prayer for the deceased whose monks were the intercessors. (p. 121) »

« Spinoza is one of those authors who can change a life. From Bergson to Einstein, there are no longer any great thinkers who recognize a deep debt to him. »