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17-year-old Cécile spends her summer in a villa on the French Riviera with her father Raymond and his current mistress, the young, superficial, fashionable Elsa, who gets on well with Cécile. Raymond is an attractive, worldly, amoral man who excuses his serial philandering by quoting Oscar Wilde : "Sin is the only note of vivid colour that ...
For Cioran, while sadness itself is an acute emotion which may follow moments of happiness, melancholy is a more diffuse form of sadness, associated with regret and ambiguity. [ 3 ] Cioran praises lyricism and heightened emotional states for their ability to force humans to reconsider the truly important categories of the human condition, such ...
— Berengar of Tours, French Christian theologian (6 January 1088), dying in ascetic solitude on the island of Saint-Cosme near Tours "Shoot, Walter, in the devil's name!" [17] — William II of England (2 August 1100), to Walter Tirel, who allegedly shot the king in a hunting accident "Yes, if it be His will, I shall obey it willingly.
"La Morte amoureuse" plays with the boundaries between life and death. For example, as Clarimonde is a vampire, she is a creature of hybridity: one that comes from life and from death, neither fully monster nor human. It is through her hybrid nature that she is capable of traveling between the realms of life and death.
King Charles is one of many world leaders to send condolences upon learning of the death of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Carter, the longest-living U.S. president and a Nobel Peace Prize ...
Article on Van Gogh's death from L'Echo Pontoisien, 7 August 1890. Adeline Ravoux, [26] the innkeeper's daughter who was 13 at the time, clearly recalled the incidents of July 1890. In an account written when she was 76, reinforced by her father's repeated reminders, she explains how on 27 July, Van Gogh left the inn after breakfast.
A Happy Death (original title La mort heureuse) is a novel by absurdist French writer-philosopher Albert Camus.The absurdist topic of the book is the "will to happiness", the conscious creation of one's happiness, and the need of time (and money) to do so.
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