Theory of life
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François Lagarde, Ernst Jünger's photographer
Eulogy for François Lagarde, a friend of 25 years, photographer of Ernst Jünger, whose film, "The Red and the Grey" is a testament. François Lagarde died on January 13, 2017. Continue reading
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Claude Bruaire
Pain refers to the "negative" sensation in aggression that affects the being through the body. The word is used for localized aggression, with varying intensity, reserving "suffering" for the experience of the whole being, affected in its depths, in its personal being. An Ethics for Medicine. From Medical Responsibility to Moral Obligation. Fayard Editions. Continue reading
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Craftsman's Prayer
12th Century Monastic Prayer Teach me, Lord, to use well the time You give me to work… Teach me to unite haste and slowness, serenity and fervor, zeal and peace. Help me at the beginning of the work. Help me in the heart of the labor… And above all, fill the gaps in my work Yourself. Continue reading
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To be and to Have
What belongs to us matters less than what we are, and we are wrong to believe, under the wing of envy, that what belongs to us can define what we are. Continue reading
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Hannah Arendt on human life
Modern theories whose raison d'être is to confuse the nature of man and thus give him an overabundant belief in his person discuss this permanent confusion. This permanent confusion uses Simone de Beauvoir's thinking on human life. The permanent confusion, the uprooting, the infantilization... We must tell man that he Continue reading
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Unamuno on human life
"I don't want to die, no I don't want to, nor do I want to want to; I want to live forever, forever; and to live me, this poor me, that I am and that I feel myself to be today and here, and that is why the problem of the duration of my Continue reading
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Yeats on human life
“When I think of all the books I have read,” said Yeats, “of all the wise words I have heard, of all the anxieties I have given to my parents… of all the hopes I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for some Continue reading
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Simone de Beauvoir on human life
"To declare that life is absurd is to say that it will never have meaning. To say that it is ambiguous is to decide that its meaning is never fixed, that it must always be earned."* A formidable declaration of powerlessness draped in an expression of the will to power, or how envy must rule, govern life. This sentence is Continue reading
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Pascal on human life
And this extract from Pascal, admitted and forced intimacy: "When I consider the small duration of my life, absorbed in the preceding and following eternity, the small space that I fill and even that I see, lost in the infinite immensity of the spaces that I ignore and that ignore me, I am frightened and astonished to see myself Continue reading
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Tolstoy on human life
This morning, I came across* — literally — this passage from Tolstoy's Confession which is a pure marvel and which so well announces The Death of Ivan Ilyich, written seven years later: "At first it seemed to me that these were gratuitous, misplaced requests. I believed that all this was already known, that if Continue reading
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The death of intimacy
Everywhere, on the Internet, in newspapers, or on television, personal experience is displayed, exhibited, and intended as a reference. This indecency is based on an inversion of values. It is founded above all and everywhere on the idea of the same. The idea of the same thinks: "I lived this, my experience reflects a universal feeling. I want to say what Continue reading
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In the heart of darkness, life
After seeing "Tree of Life," I for a long time forbade myself from writing about this film. Two forces were clashing within me. Subjugated by the poetry, by the state of bliss in which I was immersed, I was afraid of disturbing the surface of this work. I became so wrapped up in the mystery of this film that Continue reading
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What is Steve Jobs the name of?
"Steve Jobs 1955-2011," read the Apple website on October 5, 2011. Until the end, this unique signature, minimalist, elegant, and effective. His signature. The noise created by the death of this American business leader took the world by surprise. A little, and the comparison was made, as for Lady Continue reading
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A year that ends...
As the year draws to a close, we often take a furtive look back. Don't linger too long. You never know how many things you've forced yourself to bury might reappear, like those impromptu, rude, and irritating pop-ups on the internet. The exercise you can do is to Continue reading
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