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Pour l’amour de Nola, il se rendit donc au bal, de mauvaise grâce et seul. À peine arrivé, il regretta déjà sa décision : il se sentait mal à l’aise au contact de la foule. Pour se donner un semblant de contenance, il s’installa au bar et se fit servir quelques martinis tout en regardant les invités qui arrivaient au fur et à mesure.
Joël Dicker • La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert (French Edition)
In this new morality – which sounds like a moral game, or a parody of the idea of morality – moral excellence would reside in being able to successfully exempt yourself from rules you have consented to. You would always be getting out of it – the law you promote and claim to abide by. The Good Person would be replaced by the Impressive Person; and
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John Barth’s long story “Lost in the Funhouse,”
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

