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The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and health of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
TWO YEARS HE WALKS THE EARTH. NO PHONE, NO POOL, NO PETS, NO CIGARETTES. ULTIMATE FREEDOM. AN EXTREMIST. AN AESTHETIC VOYAGER WHOSE HOME IS THE ROAD. ESCAPED FROM ATLANTA. THOU SHALT NOT RETURN, ’CAUSE “THE WEST IS THE BEST.” AND NOW AFTER TWO RAMBLING YEARS COMES THE FINAL AND GREATEST ADVENTURE. THE CLIMACTIC BATTLE TO KILL THE FALSE BEING WITHIN
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden: or, Life in the woods
This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (Illustrated)
l’œuvre prend comme modèles les classiques de l’Antiquité qui, chacun dans leurs contextes propres, tentèrent de répondre aux grandes questions que l’humanité se pose. À partir de son expérience, Thoreau présente une économie de vie souhaitable et réfléchit à la détermination des conditions indispensables pour l’émancipation intellectuelle et spiri
... See moreHenry D. THOREAU, Jim Harrison, Brice MATTHIEUSSENT, • Walden (LITTERATURES) (French Edition)
Alors qu’il avait souvent exprimé son goût pour la flânerie, Thoreau considérait que son vrai travail était d’écrire, que sa pensée devait nécessairement passer par des mots fixés sur le papier et s’attaquer au défi de transcrire la nature.
Henry D. THOREAU • Journal (LITTERATURES) (French Edition)
At the advent of each individual into this life, may we not suppose that such a bar has risen to the surface somewhere? It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into
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