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Black milk of daybreak we drink it at evening
we drink it at midday and morning we drink it at night
we drink and we drink
we shovel a grave in the air there you won’t lie too cramped
A man lives in…
Contributor:
Paul Celan
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1952
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Monelle grew quiet and looked at me:
I came from the night, she said, and I shall return to the night. For I too am a young prostitute.
And Monelle said again:
I pity you, I pity you, my love.
Even…
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Marcel Schwob
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1894
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Art today is the only thing constructed, an end in itself, about which no more need be said, such richness vitality meaning wisdom: to understand to see.
To describe a flower—poetry…
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Tristan Tzara
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1917
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To one who honors you, Lord, be just,
And may my sonorous work be blessed.
Dear lord, by your will be it wrought
That out of nothing comes a new Thought.
Let it be pure, proud, faithful…
Contributor:
Catulle Mendès
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1900
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After an absence of many years, I returned to Alsace in November 1856, in response to the invitation of an old friend. During this first and short visit, I was greatly moved in recovering all the…
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Auguste Widal (Daniel Stauben)
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Paris, French Republic
(Alsace, France)
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1849–1853
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It’s a great question this question of washing. One never can find anyone who can be satisfied with anybody else’s washing. I knew a man once who never as far as anyone could see ever did any washing…
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Gertrude Stein
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1911
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“You come from Poland, Monsieur David . . . ?”
“Davidovich.”
Lévy, his host, looking with desperation at the traveling salesman, supplied the name. Still sweating from fear, Lévy was now sweating for…
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Jean-Richard Bloch
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(France, France)
Date:
1912
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My father and mother were left alone and sat down for a moment; then my father said: “Well, shall we go up to bed?”
“As you wish, dear, though I don’t feel in the least like sleeping. I don’t know why…
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Marcel Proust
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1913
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Meanwhile, the beautiful Saâda wandered the streets of Blidah . . . She continued straight ahead, without purpose or thought.
She went . . . She found Blida banal with its one-story European…
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Elissa Rhaïs
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1919
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On the Lord’s hills, white with lustrous light,
Far from rich palaces reeking of wine,
Drunk on the night and sidereal sadness,
The King dreams in self-imposed exile.
Below, mid the wheat, the…
Contributor:
Ephraïm Mikhaël
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1887