God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly
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Les livres ont les mêmes ennemis que l'homme : le feu, l'humide, les bêtes, le temps, et leur propre contenu.
Tags: books
L'éducation ne se borne pas à l'enfance et à l'adolescence. L'enseignement ne se limite pas à l'école. Toute la vie, notre milieu est notre éducation, et un éducateur à la fois sévère et dangereux. Learning transcends childhood and adolescence just as teaching transcends the classroom. Our environment is the most strict and dangerous educator we will ever have.
Tags: teaching, life-lessons, life, learning, hardships, evolving, education
What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
Tags: writing, reading
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
Tags: life, god
Une philosophie doit etre portative.
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