Sublime

‘I have no card, no name, no address. I am like the wind. I come from nowhere and I go everywhere. As for my name, just call me Friend.’

Bruno pouvait apparaître comme un individu, mais d'un autre point de vue il n'était que l'élément passif du déploiement d'un mouvement historique. Ses motivations, ses valeurs, ses désirs : rien de tout cela ne le distinguait, si peu que ce soit, de ses contemporains.

Chaplin aroused a mix of laughter and sentiment.

In this way, as an editor he did more than reflect the standards of his age; he consciously influenced and changed them by the new talents he published.

din

For all kinds of social purposes he has the calculable orbit of the man in the caste or the servile state; but in the story of his own soul he is still pursuing, at great peril, his own adventure.

The world has become as grimy and dangerous as the streets of Southside Queens—a global, competitive environment in which everyone is a ruthless hustler, out for him- or herself.

larceny

He often spoke of “dear old Adolf” and his SS, who knew what to do with thugs who picked on artists. America was the place, he said, “where honest men were all robbed and bludgeoned by scoundrels.”