Sublime

Si la gloire se mesure à l'étendue de la renommée, Jean Mermoz était alors l'homme le plus illustre de France. Et il l'était également si la gloire se pèse aux balances de l'amour. La sienne rayonnait dans les campagnes perdues et sur les boulevards de Paris, dans la montagne et dans la plaine, au fond des petits ports et sur les bancs de collège,

Elle appuyait son front à cette épaule et Bernis crut que Geneviève, tout entière, trouvait là son refuge. Sans doute le croyait-elle aussi. Sans doute ne savaient-ils pas que l’on aventure, sous la caresse, bien peu de soi-même.

As seen by his neighbours, he is as safe as if immured in a fortress; but as seen by himself he may be forever careering through the sky or crashing towards the earth in a flying–ship.

They had started to walk across to the other plane when Guillaumet, as if driven by his conscience, came back and handed me his cartridge clips, too. And with this they took off. I was alone. They knew, though I did not, that I could have sat on one of these dunes for half a year without running the least danger. What they were doing was to implant

We might cry a little if we let ourselves be tamed…

Você fica responsável para sempre pelos laços que cria. Você é responsável por sua rosa…

But in the machine of today we forget that motors are whirring: the motor, finally, has come to fulfil its function, which is to whirr as a heart beats—and we give no thought to the beating of our heart. Thus, precisely because it is perfect the machine dissembles its own existence instead of forcing itself upon our notice.