« The epistolary relationship requires 1) not to be too disturbed from morning to night, 2) to have enough to make ends meet. `...` The exercise is voluntary. Flaubert, the lucky one (four hundred letters between him and George Sand), had a cook and annuities. The end of the "good" at home, in the intellectual middle bourgeoisie, 'is no stranger to the exhaustion of this generosity of heart and spirit which consists of taking his time and a blank sheet to take news of a third. When it comes to shopping and frichti every morning, to support a long correspondence is a kind of holiness, bordering on neurosis. »
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Régis Debray
Modern catacombs |
Régis Debray
Modern catacombs
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« Reality is what resists us and taunts our plans on the comet. »
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Régis Debray
Praise for borders |
Régis Debray
Praise for borders
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« What is history for you? Answer: what brings tears to my eyes, period. »
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Régis Debray
Mrs. H. |
Régis Debray
Mrs. H.
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