“ This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ” ― Rumi
"Au commencement, il y a cette peinture d'Edward Hopper qu'on peut voir à Chicago. J'ai dû l'apercevoir à plusieurs reprises avant de m'en procurer une reproduction, un dimanche d'ennui. Un soir sans intention particulière, j'ai observé la femme en r
Like Michael Cunningham's homage to Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Jean Rhys's to Charlotte Bronte in The Wide Sargasso Sea, Philippe Besson's extravagantly praised first novel pays tribute to Marcel Proust. It also dares to introduce an asthmatic middle
