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Marjane Satrapi 🕊️ : " Persepolis "

Cogito escritum — 2026-06-08T15:16:16Z

" That day, I learned something essential : we can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it. " [1]
Marjane Satrapi « Ce jour-là, j'appris une chose fondamentale : on ne peut s'apitoyer sur soi que quand nos malheurs sont encore soutenables...
Une fois cette limite franchie, le seul moyen de supporter l'insupportable, c'est d'en rire. » [2]
Marjane Satrapi

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Edgar Morin : Mort d'un Contemporain 🕊️

Cogito escritum — 2026-06-01T11:37:42Z

Le sac à dos d'Edgar Morin
Une nuit Edgar Morin a oublié son sac à dos sur le cuir d'un taxi à l'aube le chauffeur l'a ouvert il y a trouvé un petit carnet une photo orange des années soixante d'une fille sur une plage de Méditerranée un journal du jour une boîte de cigarillos vanillés un livre des poèmes de Melville une banane tuméfiée un foulard un tube de Sensodyne et presque un siècle de pensée complexe et d'amour du prochain tout emmêlés
Thomas Vinau Edgar Morin's (…)

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George Orwell : Why I Whrite ?

Cogito escritum — 2026-05-25T13:47:14Z

"When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, I am going to produce a work of art. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience. Anyone who cares to examine my work will see that even when it is downright propaganda it contains much that a full-time (…)

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Julos Beaucarne : An Antidote to Racism

Cogito escritum — 2026-05-18T11:36:22Z

Ton Christ est Juif
« Ton Christ est juif
Ta voiture est japonaise
Ton couscous est algérien
Ta démocratie est grecque
Ton café est brésilien
Ton chianti est italien
Et tu reproches à ton voisin d'être un étranger. » [1]
Julos Beaucarne
Your Christ is Jewish
" Your Christ is Jewish
Your car is Japanese
Your couscous is Algerian
Your democracy is Greek
Your coffee is Brazilian
Your chianti is Italian
And you reproach your neighbour for being

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Shakespeare : On music

Cogito escritum — 2026-05-11T12:27:01Z

" The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils,
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus :
Let no such man be trusted... Mark the music. " [1]
Shakespeare
« L'homme qui n'a en lui-même aucune musique,
Et qui n'est pas ému par le doux accord des sons,
Est propre aux trahisons, aux perfidies, aux rapines ;
Les mouvements de son âme sont mornes comme la (…)

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Cogito escritum — 2026-04-21T14:22:08Z

– « Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here ?
– That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat.
– I don't much care where–-said Alice.
–Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.
– so long as I get somewhere, Alice added as an explanation.
– Oh, you're sure to do that, said the Cat, if only you walk long enough. »
Lewis Carroll – « Voudriez-vous me dire, s'il vous plaît, quel chemin je dois prendre pour m'en aller d'ici ?
– (…)

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Lewis Carroll : Jabberwocky

Cogito escritum — 2026-04-06T08:15:47Z

Jabberwocky
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe ; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son ! The jaws that bite, the clawsthat catch ! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch !”
He took his vorpal sword in hand : Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came (…)

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Elizabeth Bishop : El armardillo

Cogito escritum — 2026-03-30T13:31:42Z

The Armadillo
« Last night another big one fell. It splattered like an egg offire against the cliffbehind the house. The flame ran down. We saw the pair
of owls who nest thereflying up and up, their whirling black-and-white stained bright pink underneath, until they shrieked up out of sight.
The ancient owls' nest must have burned. Hastily, all alone, a glistening armadillo left the scene, rose-flecked, head down, tail down,
and then a baby rabbitjumped out, short-eared, to (…)

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Elizabeth Bishop : L'art de perdre

Cogito escritum — 2026-03-23T19:00:38Z

L'art de perdre :
Dans l'art de perdre il n'est pas dur de passer maître, tant de choses semblent si pleines d'envie d'être perdues que leur perte n'est pas un désastre.
Perds chaque jour quelque chose. L'affolement de perdre tes clés, accepte-le, et l'heure gâchée qui suit. Dans l'art de perdre il n'est pas dur de passer maître.
Puis entraîne-toi, va plus vite, il faut étendre tes pertes : aux endroits, aux noms, au lieu où tu fis le projet d'aller. Rien là qui soit un désastre. (…)

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Elizabeth Bishop : One Art

Cogito escritum — 2026-03-23T19:00:34Z

One Art :
The art of losing isn't hard to master ; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster : places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look ! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses (…)

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