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“P 2 pp. 81–86
Troisième rêve de Descartes
Un livre sur la table
Un moment après il eut un troisième songe, qui n’eut rien de terrible comme les deux premiers. Dans ce dernier il trouva un livre sur sa table, sans savoir qui l’y avait mis. Il l’ouvrit, et voyant que c’était un Dictionnaire, il en fut ravi dans l’espérance qu’il pourrait lui être fort utile. Dans le même instant, il se rencontra un autre livre sous sa main, qui ne lui était pas moins nouveau, ne sachant d’où il lui était venu. Il trouva que c’était un recueil des poésies de différents auteurs, intitulé Corpus Poetarum, etc. Il eut la curiosité d’y vouloir lire quelque chose : et à l’ouverture du livre il tomba sur le vers «Quod vitae sectabor iter ? » [«Quel chemin suivrai-je dans la vie» ?] Au même moment il aperçut un homme qu’il ne connaissait pas, mais qui lui présenta une pièce de vers, commençant par «Est et Non» (1), et qui la lui vantoit comme une pièce excellente. M. Descartes lui dit qu’il savait ce que c’était, et que cette pièce était parmi les «Idylles» d’Ausone qui se trouvait dans le gros Recueil des Poètes qui était sur sa table(2). Il voulut la montrer lui-même à cet homme et il se mit à feuilleter le livre dont il se vantait de connaître parfaitement l’ordre et l’économie. Pendant qu’il cherchait l’endroit, l’homme lui demanda où il avait pris ce livre, et M. Descartes lui répondit qu’il ne pouvait lui dire comment il l’avait eu, mais qu’un moment auparavant il en avait manié encore un autre qui venait de disparaître, sans savoir qui le lui avait apporté, ni qui le lui avait repris. Il n’avait pas achevé, qu’il revit paraître le livre à l’autre bout de la table. Mais il trouva que ce Dictionnaire n’était plus entier comme il l’avait vu la première fois(3). Cependant il en vint aux poésies d’Ausone dans le recueil des poètes qu’il feuilletait et ne pouvant trouver la pièce qui commence par «Est et non», il dit à cet homme qu’il en connaissait une du même poète encore plus belle que celle-là, et qu’elle commençait par «Quod vitae sectabor iter ? » La personne le pria de la lui montrer, et M. Descartes se mettait en devoir de la chercher, lorsqu’il tomba sur divers petits portraits gravés en taille douce : ce qui lui fit dire que ce livre était fort beau, mais qu’il n’était pas de la même impression que celui qu’il connaissait. Il en était là, lorsque les livres et l’homme disparurent, et s’effacèrent de son imagination, sans néanmoins le réveiller.
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Ce dernier songe qui n’avait eu rien que de fort doux et de fort agréable, marquait l’avenir selon lui et il n’était que pour ce qui devait lui arriver dans le reste de sa vie. Mais il prit les deux précédents pour des avertissements menaçants touchant sa vie passée, qui pouvait n’avoir pas été aussi innocente devant Dieu que devant les hommes. Et il crut que c’était la raison de la terreur et de l’effroi dont ces deux songes étaient accompagnés. Le melon dont on voulait lui faire présent dans le premier songe, signifiait, disait-il, les charmes de la solitude, mais présentés par des sollicitations purement humaines. Le vent qui le poussoit vers l’église du collège, lorsqu’il avait mal au côté droit, n’était autre chose que le mauvais génie qui tâchait de le jeter par force dans un lieu où son dessein était d’aller volontairement. C’est pourquoi Dieu ne permit pas qu’il avançât plus loin, et qu’il se laissât emporter même en un lieu saint par un esprit qu’il n’avoit pas envoyé quoiqu’il fût très persuadé que ç’eût été l’esprit de Dieu qui lui avait fait faire les prémières démarches vers cette église. L’épouvante dont il fut frappé dans le second songe, marquait, à son sens, sa syndérêse, c’est-à-dire, les remords de sa conscience touchant les péchés qu’il pouvait avoir commis pendant le cours de sa vie jusqu’alors. La foudre dont il entendit l’éclat, était le signal de l’esprit de vérité qui descendait sur lui pour le posséder.”
Source: La Vie de M. Descartes
“p.305
«Hva tenker du om nettsiden?» spurte hun. «Har du vært inne på den?»
Wisting nikket, uten å oppgi hvilket alias han brukte.
«Det er et godt verktøy», sa han. «Det er ikke sikkert løsningen på saken dukker opp der, men så lenge nettsiden er oppe, vil den være en påminnelse for etterforskerne.»
«Tror du de irriterer seg over den?» spurte Michelle.
«Helt sikkert», svarte Wisting. «Du er som et knirkende hjul for dem, men det er de hjulene som knirker som blir smurt først.»
Han ga henne et raskt smil.
«Men du burde ha noen retningslinjer», fortsatte han.
«Selv om det er et lukket forum, burde du ikke tillate brukerne å navngi personer de mistenker. Du kan ødelegge uskyldige menneskers liv på den måten.
Michelle nikket. Det virket som om hun hadde vært innom de samme tankene selv.
«Og så ville jeg vært forsiktig med å publisere politidokumenter», la Wisting til. «Det kan slå tilbake på deg og føre til at politiet får siden stengt.»
«Har de sagt det?» spurte Michelle. «Har dere møtt de spanske etterforskerne?»
«Vi var på politistasjonen i formiddag», svarte Wisting.
«De ga oss en orientering. Nettsiden din var ikke tema. Jeg fikk inntrykk av at de ignorerte den.»
p.381
Michelle kikket på lappen med beskjeden om å ringe Celia.
Hun grep automatisk etter mobilen i lomma, men den var selvsagt ikke der. Politiet hadde tatt fra henne både telefon og PC. Hun fikk ringe fra rommet.
Mannen bak skranken hadde fått en skeptisk mine. Hun dro nøkkelen til seg og gikk bort til heisen. Hun kjente sin egen kroppslukt mens heisen skramlet oppover, og følte seg skitten. Håret var seigt og pistrete, huden svett.
Heisen stanset med en rykning, og dørene gikk opp.
Rommet lå i enden av gangen.
Politiet hadde gjennomsøkt det. Kofferten hennes var tømt, og alle klærne lå på senga. Veska sto på gulvet. Den var ransaket, men innholdet var lagt tilbake. Passet hennes lå også der. De hadde ikke tatt det. Hun kunne komme seg hjem.
Hun så seg rundt. Det var ingen telefon på rommet, verken på nattbordet eller skrivebordet. Hun hadde mest lyst til å ta en lang, varm dusj, men gikk ned i resepsjonen igjen. På et lite bord med turistbrosjyrer sto det en telefon hun fikk låne.
Det tok lang tid før Celia svarte. Stemmen sviktet da hun hørte den spanske kvinnen i den andre enden.
«Michelle? Er det deg?» spurte hun. «Hvor er du?»
De kjente ikke hverandre godt, men det var likevel noe trygt ved å høre henne snakke.
"Ja, det er meg", svarte Michelle. «Jeg er tilbake på hotellet.»
Tårene presset på. Hun gned dem bort og skjønte at det var nå reaksjonen kom. Kroppen begynte å skjelve, og det ble vanskelig å puste.
«Jeg ble arrestert», fikk hun fram.
«Arrestert?»
Michelle trakk pusten og samlet seg.
«Politiet hentet meg på hotellet i går morges.»
«Men hvorfor det?»
«På grunn av nettsiden.»
Det strammet seg til i brystet igjen, og hun måtte hive etter pusten.
«De sa det var ulovlig», støtte hun fram. «De har tatt telefonen og datamaskinen min.»
«Men ...» begynte Celia. «De kan jo ikke bare ...»
Hun avbrøt seg selv.
«Hvilket rom bor du på?»”
Source: Grenseløs
“p.360
- Suffit-il de manquer la messe un dimanche, ou de mâcher l'hostie de la communion, de voler une miche de pain, ou de séduire la femme de son voisin ?
- Non, ai-je répondu en secouant la tête, non. - -- Mais s'il n'y a pas d'hierarchie dans le mal, alors un seul péché suffit. C'est bien ce que vous dites, non ? Que Dieu existe, et...
- je ne sais pas si Dieu existe. Et pour ceux que j'en ai vus, je dirais qu'il n'existe pas.
- Alors, aucun péché n'a d'importance, aucun péché ne peut mener au mal.
- C'est faux. Car si Dieu n'existe pas, cela signifie que nous sommes les créatures les plus douées de conscience de tout l'univers. Nous seuls comprenons le passage du temps et la valeur de chaque minute d'une vie humaine. Et le mal, le mal véritable, s'est doté d'une seule vie humaine. Qu'un homme meure demain, après-demain, ou plus tard encore, cela ne change rien. Car si Dieu n'existe pas, alors cette vie, la moindre des secondes qui la compose, représente tout ce que nous possédons.”
Source: 1. Interview With the Vampire – 2. The Vampire Lestat – 3. The Queen of the Damned – 4. The Tale of the Body Thief – 5. Memnoch the Devil
“p. 362 "There are nights I lie awake wondering what the moment was we lost the Germany I knew. Some might point to the invasion of Poland ... There are a million such moments. Kristallnacht, the Night of the long Knives, the Jewish boycotts, the race laws ... But sometimes I think it was the moment right before the gasoline was poured on the books. The moment the most educated country in the world willingly, joyously, wholeheartedly turned away from knowledge.”
“p. 363 "We cannot stop individuals who read for the sole purpose of confirming their already closely held beliefs... But we can stop the dictators, the tyrants, the bullies who try to impose that method onto others.”
Source: The Librarian of Burned Books
“p. 364
Do you want to be the ones handing out the gasoline cans? Or the ones trying to put out the fire?”
Source: The Librarian of Burned Books
“P. 37/784 - Return of the King
Lady Éowyn to Aragorn: “All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.”
“p.502
Tu es aussi froid et distant que ces étranges tableaux modernes faits de lignes et de formes rigides que je ne parviens ni à aimer, ni à comprendre.”
Source: Interview with the Vampire
“p. 8, line 33: It is said:
The Holy Ghost does not refuse to make use of those churches and communities.
This statement contains an error: A community, insofar as it is a separated community, cannot enjoy the assistance of the Holy Ghost. He can only act directly upon souls or use such means as, of themselves, bear no signs of separation.”
Source: I Accuse the Council
“P: ¿Cuál es el error fundamental del hombre?
R: Pensar que está vivo, cuando simplemente se ha dormido en la antesala de la vida.”
Source: El buscador de la verdad
“P: ¿Cuál es un error fundamental del hombre?
R: Pensar que está vivo, cuando simplemente se ha dormido en la antesala de la vida.”
Source: Seeker After Truth: A Handbook
“P: ¿Cómo puedo ayudarme a mí mismo?
R: Recordando: “El Sendero no ha de ser encontrado en lugar alguno mas en el servicio humano”, de Saadi”
Source: Seeker After Truth: A Handbook
“P-E-P-S-I pleases, you. But not for me. No.”
“P for Poetry
P for Philosophy
Poetry for those who can only see rhyme
for those who see the philosophy its sublime
Depth maximized...divinity #Mickeymized!”
“P’haps because, out of all the life forms I’ve ever met, human beings are the … lifiest.' The Doctor swung her legs off the table and leaned forward. 'Here's how it is. I don't only care about the people of this planet. I happen to protect them.”
Source: Doctor Who: Combat Magicks
“P.I. Cassie Cruise--You don't have to like her, but you damn well better respect her”
Source: Lane Changes
“P—Jamie!” I called.
He waded back toward me. “I’m starting to think my name is Pajamie.”
“Your name should be Pajerky. You said it wasn’t deep.”
“Pajerky?” He gave me a skeptical look. “That’s Pathetic.”
“We’ll see how smug you are once I’m on dry land.”
Source: Rites of Spring (Break)
“P.P.P.P.S. Don't wake the third sleeper.”
Source: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“P.S.2. During the day, they are drilling us on passwords we will need in the jungle in case we run into a Japanese spy dressed like a USMC. One of them was "Who lost game 4 of the 1941 W. Series?" Half the guys said "Brooklyn" and the other half said "Mickey Owen" and the third half said "Tommy Henrich". Then some fist fights happened so they scrapped the question. But I told you so.”
Source: Last Days of Summer
“P.S. I also note that you included the Stalker's Anthem "Every Breath You Take" I do enjoy our sense of humor, but does Dr. Flynn know?”
Source: Fifty Shades Darker
“P.S. I truly love every square inch of Australia. I look forward to when we realise that this country is our giver of life and will survive long after we have passed on. Maybe, then, we will each choose a life similar to that of our ancestors: one of leaving soft footprints and a light touch on this landscape, and with a kindness for each other.”
Source: Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
“P's of life; Passionate life, Persistent life.”
“P.S. Please give my love to Tink, she always was such a funny little bug”
“P.S Please give my love to Tink. She was always such a funny little bug.”
Source: Tiger Lily
“P.S. What the hell. Why not sign off with the traditional American greeting? "Merry Christmas," Uncle Vasile. "Happy holidays to you."
P.P.S. Really---"counseling"!”
Source: Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
“P. Sainath says, 'What we need to do is not just destroy the caste hierarchy but simultaneously create respect for the work and labour that people do, for what they produce. I have always maintained that untouchability is not just a social evil. It’s more than that. It’s an extremely cruel, vicious but sophisticated form of exploitation by which we keep a large labour force permanently demoralised, humiliated and dependent. So we need to destroy the feudal relations of production completely; we need to accept that if a son or daughter of a potter, weaver or leather worker do not want to be in that field, it’s a perfectly legitimate need of theirs and they cannot under any circumstance be compelled. You need to break down the caste hierarchy and when you bring respect and economic returns for that skill, who knows—many other children in the village might want to do it.
Look at the way we’ve destroyed weaving. Several weavers, who for countless years made the famous Kanjeevaram saree, are driving autorickshaws in Kanchi and Chennai, and this is called reskilling. These individuals hold within them cumulatively thousands of years of skill, knowledge and experience. We simply do not respect labour, we don’t give dignity to those who do this beautiful work.
However, there are also professions and occupations that you want to see dead. I don’t want to see anybody take up or inherit manual scavenging. It is the greatest assault on human dignity that you can think of in a structured way. And it is perpetrated because we are somehow very comfortable with the idea of using the children of our poor to do the dirty work for us. So there are professions that have to be completely destroyed. And there are professions, occupations and livelihoods that have to be preserved. But not as they were in their old context but recreated in a new one.”
Source: Nine Rupees an Hour: Disappearing Livelihoods of Tamil Nadu
“P stands for parents and paradoxes.”
Source: Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Overcrowded Heart
“P.T.S.D. doesn't make you weak. It makes you a survivor.”
“P...U...D...D...I...N...G"
"Pudding," said Roger. "They've kept some for us."
"She hasn't finished the word," said Dick.
Titty was reading steadily on. "H...E...A...D...S...End of word”
Source: Pigeon Post
“P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.”
“p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.”
“P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.”
“P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.”
“P.I.L. has been a favorite of mine since high school especially there metal box album. The guitarist Keith Levine gets some of the best sounds ever to come out of a guitar. The songs are really free form and experimental and have a heavy dub influence.”
“P.J. O'Rourke says that conservatives really hate government and every couple of years we put them in charge and then we're reminded how much we really hate government. We're not always necessarily great at the task of running government. We're the anti-government party. It actually makes some sense we're not so good at that. But you got to have basic competence in how you run the government, even in how you reduce its effectiveness in people's lives.”
“P.P.S. AND YOU CAN TALK. "Just say the word." JUST SAY THE WORD? What kind of expression is that? WHAT WORD WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SAY ANYWAY? MORON? Letter from Emily to Charles.”
“P.P.S. I am giving you telepathic hugs. P.P.P.S. But not in a telepathically lezzie way.”
“P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.”
“P.S. I enjoy acid pops.”
“P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.”
Source: Joanne Fluke Christmas Bundle: Sugar Cookie Murder, Candy Cane Murder, Plum Pudding Murder, & Gingerbread Cookie Murder
“P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.”
“P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry?”
“P.S. Nothing personal, but I think this journal assignment is a waste of time. I know I have to do something to make up for all the work I'm missing at school, but I HATE busywork. And that's what this journal thing is. Half the teachers at school assign work they never read. When we get stupid assignments like that, I always write somewhere on my paper "blah blah blah" or "I bet you're not even reading this," are you? or "Give me a sign if you're reading this." They never are.”
“P.S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time.”
“P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute, but his estimate was laughably low.”
“p2 I'd seen a photo of the actual red and white checked notebook that was Anne [Frank]'s first diary. I longed to own a similar notebook. Stationery was pretty dire back in the late fifties and early sixties. There was no such thing as Paperchase. I walked round and round the stationery counter in Woolworths and spent most of my pocket money on notebooks, but they weren't strong on variety. You could have shiny red sixpenny notebooks, lined inside, with strange maths details about rods and poles and perches on the back. (I never found out what they were!) Then you could have shiny blue sixpenny notebooks. That was your lot.
I was enchanted to read in Dodie Smith's novel I Capture The Castle that the heroine, Cassandra, was writing her diary in a similar sixpenny notebook. She eventually progressed to a shilling notebook. My Woolworths rarely stocked such expensive luxuries. Then, two thirds of the way through the book, Cassandra is given a two-guinea red leather manuscript book. I lusted after that fictional notebook for years.
I told my mother, Biddy. She rolled her eyes. It could have cost two hundred guineas - both were way out of our league... My dad, Harry, was a civil servant. One of the few perks of his job was that he had an unlimited illegal supply of notepads watermarked SO - Stationery Office. I'd drawn on these pads for years, I'd scribbled stories, I'd written letters. They were serviceable but unexciting: thin cream paper unreliably bound with glue at the top. You couldn't write a journal with these notepads; it would fall apart in days... My spelling wasn't too hot. It still isn't. Thank goodness for the spellcheck on my computer!”
Source: My Secret Diary
“p28 " Il parlait le CONVAINCU. C'est une langue étrange ça, le CONVAINCU, une langue à sens unique faite des mêmes mots que nous, mais un peu différente : elle ne connaît pas les points d'interrogation. Et puis, c'est une langue qu'on ne remarque pas sur le coup. Elle change celui qui la parle ça oui, elle le transforme, et quand on s'en rend compte, c'est déjà trop tard".”
Source: L'Homme qui n'aimait plus les chats
“P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty”
“P37- none of them could understand how a child could be so and backward in learning to care for itself.”
Source: Tarzan of the Apes
“P4- no amount of dollars can remove the inherent destructiveness off welfare institutions once the professional hierarchies off these have convinced society that their ministrations are morally necessary.”