It’s hard to identify 3 books out of all the ones you’ve read to make a top 3. Each one offers its own contribution to who we are and often, what we read, we don’t quite manage to assimilate because we are missing some degrees of maturity. In short, it’s not the book that is bad, it’s us who are…
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One can do without all books, yet all books are essential to live and to like living. Hafid Aggoune In the age of YouTube and Instagram, the book seems to have lost some of its glory. The text remains of course present, if only in the emails we receive, the titles of videos we still make the effort to read,…
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The moment of epiphany is not what you think Sometimes it’s only at the bottom of the hole that we begin to see the light and understand what’s happening to us. We are all looking for a moment of epiphany, that is to say the one that reveals the hidden meaning of existence when everything seems dark, opaque or confused.…
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A certain culture has imposed itself on us. It comes to us from films, series and the charismatic characters they portray. This so-called popular mass culture has made us adopt codes coming from another world and above all it has incited us to ape these characters full of aplomb, whether consciously or not. This change is taking the appearance for…
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Think like a chess player The loss of meaning makes us either go in all directions or ground us. The global health crisis has exposed the nihilism that consumes our lives. For some, welfare gives the illusion of a world that goes on, without suspecting that the next world will be quite different. For those who have not experienced the…
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A world in turmoil needs new ideas to sustain it. Several major changes affect our daily lives, and it is only when abstract thought meets materiality that we can experience the solidity of an idea. When we think about the world today, we can be both seized with cold fear at the idea of the challenges we will have to…
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The fate of millions of people remains suspended on the vagaries of governmental measures whose conclusions are themselves based on the estimated risks incurred by an unprecedented pandemic. The breath we have been holding for these long months can hardly erase the anguish of a nebulous future. The masses clamor in front of the television sets waiting for a promising…
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We often believe that willpower alone can shape a life. It plays an undeniable role, it is true, but it can only hide for a time what is deep inside us. Willpower allows us to project ourselves onto the world with determination. There is a greater force that always ends up speaking and silencing our will: our essence. We are…
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Often, we feel very small in front of the courage that some people can show. We tell ourselves that we are not made of the same metal and that bravery is perhaps a matter of nature. There are natural tendencies in our character, sometimes introverted, sometimes fiery, but courage can be developed like most character qualities. Courage means overcoming our…
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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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