Do not leave your dog on a leash if you want him to be attached to you. Albert Willemetz Albert Willemetz was a French librettist, lyricist and scriptwriter, born in Paris on 14 February 18871 and died in Marnes-la-Coquette on 7 October 1964 (aged 77). The dog is here the metaphor of a friend or any other life companion. It…
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There is no melancholy master-of-arms. Alfred de Musset Alfred de Musset was a French writer of the Romantic period, born on 11 December 1810 in Paris, where he died on 2 May 1857. Anyone who seeks to excel and become the best in any field, be it fencing or poetry for example, has no time to lament his fate or…
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You spend most of your life dressed as an adult. Monique Corriveau Monique Chouinard Corriveau is a Quebec writer. She has written several books for young people. Life is a role-playing game and the one we play most often is to live as an adult. There is little difference between a child and an adult except that the latter has…
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To be possessed by current events is to be possessed by oblivion. Milan Kundera Milan Kundera, born on 1 April 1929 in Brno (Moravia), is a naturalized French Czech writer. He emigrated to France in 1975 and became a French citizen on 1 July 1981. He wrote his first books in Czech, but since 1993 he has used French exclusively.…
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Half an hour of meditation is essential except when you are very busy. Then an hour is necessary. François de Sales François de Sales, born on 21 August 1567 at the Château de Sales near Thorens-Glières in Savoy and died on 28 December 1622 in Lyon, was a Savoyard Catholic priest. Appointed bishop of Geneva, he was never able to…
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Never confuse movement with action. Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway, born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA, and died on 2 July 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho, is an American writer, journalist and war correspondent. In the frenetic societies in which we live, it is customary to combine movement and action. Action exists when the body or mind is…
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You spend most of your life dressed as an adult. Monique Corriveau Monique Chouinard Corriveau is a Quebec writer. She has written several books for young people. Life is a role-playing game and the one most often played is to live as an adult. There is little difference between a child and an adult except that the latter has stifled…
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Making sketches is like planting seeds to grow paintings. Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh, born on 30 March 1853 in Groot-Zundert, the Netherlands, and died on 29 July 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, was a Dutch painter and draughtsman. His work full of naturalism, inspired by Impressionism and Pointillism, heralds Fauvism and Expressionism. Every work, every large-scale work begins…
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Antipathy analyzes better, but sympathy alone understands. André Siegfried André Siegfried, born in Le Havre on 21 April 1875 and died in Paris on 28 March 1959, was a French sociologist, historian and geographer, a pioneer of electoral sociology. Antipathy is mainly driven by our intellect, it is cold and divisive. Its aim is not to understand but to separate.…
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Our societies should be more interested in people’s happiness, not only because it would be economically beneficial, but simply because without happiness there is no real will to build social links. The demand for economic performance makes us forget that living is not only about accumulating capital or finding a way to spend money better. By looking too much…
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