Sublime

Mais si incisif que soit son humour, si mordantes que soient ses récriminations, cela ne nous empêche pas d’avoir le sentiment, la certitude, que c’est là un homme qui aime, un homme qui aime l’amour, et qui est condamné à ne jamais rencontrer une âme accordée à la sienne. Hamsun est vraiment ce qu’on pourrait appeler un aristocrate de l’esprit. »

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Lydgate was no Puritan, but he did not care to play, and winning money at it had always seemed a meanness to him; besides, he had an ideal of life which made this subservience of conduct to the gaining of small sums thoroughly hateful to him. Hitherto in his own life his wants had been supplied without any trouble to himself, and his first impulse

a man like Mr. Peggotty was not a bad person to have on board if anything did happen. Nothing happened, however, worse than morning.

It was of final importance to Dickens that poor men could amuse themselves and could amuse him. He troubled little about the mere education of that life; he declared two essential things about it—that it was laughable, and that it was livable.

celui qui ne sait pas saisir le bonheur quand il vient ne doit pas se plaindre quand il passe.