« In maternal love, the darkest selfishness fights with rage the most sparkling generosity. »
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Hervé Le Tellier
The anomaly |
Hervé Le Tellier
The anomaly
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« Schweiger had given a name to what he was looking for: the silence of silence, the moment when, within a given silence, silence suddenly appears. Of course, he had already discerned behind a silence another silence, as for example, behind a "silence of a woman's voice", a "barking dog's silence". But he wanted "absolute silence," the sonic equivalent of the white square on a white background. »
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Hervé Le Tellier
Encyclopdia unutilis |
Hervé Le Tellier
Encyclopdia unutilis
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« To give himself the courage to approach him, Adrian drank one beer and then another. On an empty date, he can vaguely delude himself - Meredith once told him, not badly, that he had "a Ryan Gosling-style physique, in a degraded and slightly bald version" - but now he only looks like a drunk guy. He estimates his chances of success at 27%. They could have reached 40% if it did not stink as much of alcohol, but on the other hand, drunkenness will reduce by about 60% the suffering caused by a refusal. The probabilist concluded that with so many chances of picking himself up, you might as well be drunk. »
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Hervé Le Tellier
The anomaly |
Hervé Le Tellier
The anomaly
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