the lie and how we told it

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“ Il n’était encore que dix heures; Julien, ivre de bonheur et du sentiment de sa puissance, si nouveau pour un pauvre diable, entra à l’Opéra italien. Il entendit chanter son ami Géronimo. Jamais la musique ne l’avait exalté à ce point. Il était un dieu."

— Stendhal, Le rouge et le noir

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“ Money ? Perhaps one couldn’t say the same there. Money one always wanted. Money, Success, the bitch-goddess, as Tommy Dukes persisted in calling it, after Henry James, that was permanent necessity. You couldn’t spend you last sou, and say finally : So that’s that! No, if you lived even another ten minutes, you wanted a few more sous for something or other. Just to keep the business mechanically going, you needed money. You had to have it. Money you have to have. You needn’t really have anything else. So that’s that !
Since, of course, it’s not your fault you are alive. Once you are alive, money is a necessity, and the only absolute necessity. All the rest you can get along without, at a pinch. But not money. Emphatically, that’s that!"

— D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

06/05/2011 @ 11h51