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21 " God, but stupidity oozes from every corner of a religious mind. Every conviction is a thorn in the side of intelligence. "
― Hervé Le Tellier , The Anomaly
22 " Since - at least - King Arthur and his knights, the military gent likes to gather in circles, probably because the circle proclaims the equality of merit without hiding anything from the real hierarchies. "
23 " The American president sits openmouthed, showing a marked resemblance to a fat grouper with a blond wig. "
24 " spending every day missing a woman who’s no longer there will be less painful than relentlessly desiring one who’s sleeping beside him but is light-years away from him in the tepid indifference of the shadows. "
25 " Andre can already tell that, all things considered, spending every day missing a woman who is no longer there will be less painful than relentlessly desiring one who’s sleeping beside him but is light-years away from him in the tepid indifference of the shadows. "
― Hervé Le Tellier
26 " He wrote her knowing it was pointless and, more significantly, shall we say, counterproductive. But when the remote-control batteries are dead, we just keep pushing harder. It’s only human. "
27 " She no longer recognized the sweet boy who wrote her poems. Military training had transformed him, muscled him up, hardened him. And when they made love, the reticent young man, so shy with his girlish young body, had become brutal and selfish. It was then that she started to be afraid of him. "
28 " N’allez pas là où le chemin vous mène. Allez là où il n’y a pas encore de chemin et laissez une nouvelle trace. "
29 " «Dios, cuánta estupidez rezuma el espíritu religioso. Toda certeza aniquila la inteligencia. Cuando convierte la muerte en una desventura más, el creyente pierde la razón. Al hacer de mí un autodidacta de la vida, la duda me ha hecho disfrutar de cada instante. Jamás he sentido ningún tipo de emoción mística, ni siquiera al contemplar el glorioso centelleo de una nube. Incluso cuando estoy a punto de morir ahogado, intento mantenerme a flote, no me pongo a rezarle a Arquímedes. En este instante en que me hundo, mis ojos se abren a un abismo donde ningún teorema podrá salvarme». "
30 " Il a sorti son carnet, un stylo, il tente de s'abstraire des cris, du bruit, il prend des notes: Épuisement d'un lieu improbable. Mais non. Pourquoi marcher à l'ombre de Perec? Pourquoi ne s'affranchit-il jamais des influences, des figures tutélaires? Pourquoi, quand il ne craint pas d'être un imposteur, n'est il qu'un gamin en quête d'adoubement?Posément, il inscrit Mode avion. "
31 " Victor vient de poser le dernier mot au court livre qui raconte l'avion, l'anomalie, la divergence. Comme titre il a pensé à Si par une nuit d'hiver deux cent quarante-trois voyageurs — et Anne a secoué la tête —, puis il a voulu en faire l'incipit et Anne a soupiré. Ce sera finalement un titre bref, un seul mot. Hélas, L'Anomalie était déjà pris. "
32 " The truth, with love, is that the heart knows straightaway, and shouts it from the rooftops. Of course, you’re not going to come straight out and tell the person you love them. They wouldn’t understand. So, to disguise the fact that you’re already hostage to them, you make conversation. "
33 " En additionnant des obscurités individuelles, on obtient rarement une lumière collective. "
34 " There is something admirable that always surpasses knowledge, intelligence, and even genius, and that is incomprehension. "
35 " La seducción ha sido siempre una habilidad ordinaria; la ruptura, un arte sublime. "
36 " La esperanza nos hace aguardar en el rellano de la felicidad. Al obtener lo que esperábamos, nos adentramos en la antesala de la infelicidad. "
37 " Of course, like everyone else on the plane. The turbulence stopped and the sun came streaming into the cabin. That last sentence is also the definition of Prozac. "
38 " Para dejar a la persona amada, hay que deconstruir el mundo. Joanna June ha tenido que reescribir su historia, desenterrar viejas dudas, consumir la atracción que sentía por Aby del mismo modo que, repitiendo una palabra decenas de veces, conseguimos vaciarla de sentido. "
39 " My dear fellow citizens, in August 1945, after the Hiroshima bombing, when the world tipped into the nuclear age and fear of annihilation, the writer Albert Camus wrote: ‘We’re being presented with a new source of anguish here, and it has every chance of being definitive. Humanity is perhaps being offered its last chance. And, yes, that could be a good pretext for a special edition. But it’s more likely to be a topic for some reflection and a great deal of silence.’ We must take inspiration from these fine words. "
40 " Victor also has a photograph of his late father in his wallet, a picture taken from an album, from the days when there were albums, when too many photos hadn’t yet killed photos. "