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What is the use of tradition?
Tradition requires constant conversion. It's no picnic! Tradition requires constant effort. And even the most important effort: that of not forgetting. Tradition is of little use for remembering; it serves primarily to not forget. It loses its Continue reading
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The foam of lives
Can we still take refuge in our inner life, behave like rebels in this world that loves nothing but exteriority and its procession of emotions pushed to their paroxysm and that warps lives to make them all similar and ghostly? Continue reading
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Father Garrigou-Lagrange about the enemies of the Church!
The Church is uncompromising in principle because she believes, and tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church, on the other hand, are tolerant in principle because they do not believe, but uncompromising in practice because they do not love. The Church absolves sinners; the enemies of the Church absolve sins. Continue reading
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The Chief's Sacrifice
"Who is like God?" (1), the book by Army Corps General Pierre Gillet, exhaustively inventories the qualities of a leader and sets out the Christian virtues necessary for command. What could pass for an insider's book, a new TTA (1), becomes, under the delicate and virile pen of Pierre Gillet, former Army Corps Commander Continue reading
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Be yourself
Being oneself never fades into habit. Identity is a search and an affirmation, a permanent enantiodromos, like a state of siege that fears no enemy. Who am I? Where am I going? Constantly accepting to question oneself and explore the mystery of life, but shielded by what one knows. Continue reading
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The Revolutionary and Forgiveness
The revolutionary has no appetite for forgiveness, for he hates the gift that seems suspect to him and the other with whom he could have sealed the future. For the revolutionary, driven by envy, the only form of forgiveness that is proper to him involves the humiliation or death of his opponent in order to celebrate his victory. Continue reading
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The will alone or the will alone
Antigone knows that man must not believe in his will alone. Here too, it is a question of power swelling with pride. Will alone becomes perverted, corrupted, withered, and prideful. Will alone, or the will alone that often accompanies it, takes over space as soon as a higher power, authority, is forgotten. All Continue reading
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Our secret, a mystery
We have our secret, which we first keep secret from ourselves. Marcel Jouhandeau, in Elements for an Ethic. Grasset Editions. Continue reading
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Diversity (continued)
… Sounge i felibre esteba… I think of the Félibres… It is the characteristic of good artisans of the Diverse, to turn it over end for end. Would it ever be reached? It is ruin, death. It is always reborn: suddenly behind, when one stretches out one's arms to it from the front. However, over there, Boissière writes: The Continue reading
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Diversity
I don't know if, like me, hearing the word diversity (which has replaced the word Other) makes you feel nauseous. Victor Segalen is an author who acts as a remedy for this nausea. A fine example is Jules Boissière, who, a Provençal, a Félibre, wrote his most beautiful Félibre verses in Hanoi. Here is the true Continue reading
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essay on exoticism
Only those who possess a strong Individuality can feel Difference. By virtue of the law: every thinking subject presupposes an object, we must posit that the notion of Difference immediately implies an individual starting point. That those will fully taste the admirable sensation, who will feel what they are and what they are not Continue reading
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Splitting according to Creon
Creon divides his interlocutors into two groups: those who are with him and those who are against him. He no longer negotiates and threatens those who oppose him. Force controls him, when force should only ever be used to protect, and this is always the case with those who give themselves body and soul to Continue reading
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The enantiodromos, the fork of life
Creon transforms into a tyrant. He becomes what he imagines he should be. It is the enantiodromos, this moment and this place among the Greeks, which reveals the true nature of a man when, at the crossroads, he must confront the choice of the road to follow. The enantiodromos is the fork where the one who becomes… Continue reading
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Take on yourself, a transfiguration
It is difficult to understand in our time where individualism reigns that the action of taking on the fault that one does not think of oneself, that one thinks of the other, but which necessarily is also one's own, necessarily, because I have already committed this kind of fault by action or by omission, this fault is not unknown to me, the action of taking on the Continue reading