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Mes jours n’étaient pas ceux de la semaine, marqués au sceau de quelque divinité païenne 72, et ils n’étaient pas davantage débités en heures ni tracassés par le tic-tac d’une horloge ; car je vivais comme les Indiens Puris,
Henry D. THOREAU, Jim Harrison, Brice MATTHIEUSSENT, • Walden (LITTERATURES) (French Edition)
A saner man would have found himself often enough “in formal opposition” to what are deemed “the most sacred laws of society,” through obedience to yet more sacred laws, and so have tested his resolution without going out of his way. It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he
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He has no venture in the present. But though comparatively disregarded now, when his day comes, laws unsuspected by most will take effect, and masters of families and rulers will come to him for advice.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Quant aux hommes, on n’en manquera jamais nulle part. J’ai eu davantage de visites pendant que je vivais dans les bois qu’à toute autre période de ma vie ; je veux dire que j’en ai eu quelques-unes. J’ai rencontré là plusieurs personnes dans des conditions plus favorables que nulle part ailleurs.
Henry D. THOREAU, Jim Harrison, Brice MATTHIEUSSENT, • Walden (LITTERATURES) (French Edition)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden
L’orateur s’abandonne à l’inspiration d’une occasion fugace pour s’adresser à la foule rassemblée devant lui, à tous ceux qui peuvent l’entendre ; mais l’écrivain, dont la vie plus régulière constitue l’occasion prolongée, et qui perdrait tous ses moyens face à l’événement et à la foule qui inspire l’orateur, s’adresse à l’intellect et au cœur de
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Nous oublions souvent qu’après tout, c’est toujours la première personne qui s’exprime. Je ne devrais pas parler autant de moi-même s’il existait quelqu’un d’autre que je connaisse aussi bien. Hélas, je suis réduit à ce thème par l’étroitesse de mon expérience.
Henry D. THOREAU, Jim Harrison, Brice MATTHIEUSSENT, • Walden (LITTERATURES) (French Edition)
but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.