Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit for happiness and just be happy.
De temps à autre, il est bon de faire une pause dans notre quête du bohneur et d’être simplement heureux.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Changez votre vie aujourd’hui. Ne pariez pas sur l’avenir, agissez maintenant, sans délai.
Simone de Beauvoir
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
Au milieu de l’hiver, j’ai découvert en moi un invincible été.
Albert Camus
Often, we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognising it.
Souvent nous passons ainsi auprès du bohneur sans le voir, sans le regarder, ou, si nous l’avons vu et regardé, sans le reconnaître
Alexandre Dumas
There is only one life; therefore, it is perfect.
Il n’y a qu’une vie, c’est donc qu’elle est parfaite.
Paul Éluard
We must laugh and cry, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity. I think that’s what being really human means.
Il faut rire et pleurer, aimer, travailler, jouir et souffrir, enfin vibrer autant que possible dans toute son étendue. Voilà, je crois, le vrai humain.
Gustave Flaubert
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
On ne peut découvrir de nouvelles terres sans consentir à perdre de vue le rivage pendant une longue période.
André Gide
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Ce n’est rien de mourir, c’est affreux de ne pas vivre .
Victor Hugo
Seul l’éphémère dure.
Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
Eugene Ionesco
I just remembered Albert Camus wrote a brilliant book called ‘The Plague’.
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Yes, and there have been many comments on how The Plague applies to our current situation with coronavirus. Here’s an article about it if you are interested: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-camus-plague.html
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My favourite French book was Le Silence de la Mer by Vercors.
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I have heard a lot about it but never read it. Maybe I should add it to my to read list.
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I find it such a passionate story. They are both so honourable. My own family befriended some German POWs folowing the war. My father had a distant French cousin who was nearly shot as part of the resistance. I met him. I love French literature.
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