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December 2nd, 2011 11:56am

M. de Lassay, homme très doux, mais qui avait une grande connaissance de la société, disait qu’il faudrait avaler un crapaud tous les matins, pour ne trouver plus rien de dégoûtant le reste de la journée, quand on devait la passer dans le monde.

M. de Lassay, a very gentle man but with a great knowledge of society, said that one must swallow a toad every morning that one has to go out around people just so you won’t find anything more disgusting during the day.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort (1741–1794)

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Insomniac passing anhypnic nights in writing, translation, music, mathematics, programming and whatever else captures my attention or alleviates agrypnia.

This consists mostly of quotations of things that stand out to me or reflect what's on my mind; occasionally I also post original, often more personal, content as well, which may be found under the "personal" tag. Anything posted under "translations" is also original work and may broadly be taken as personal as well as I seldom tackle a work that does not speak to or for me in some way.