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Eso que llaman derecho penal, y que es todo menos derecho. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table. L'homme est périssable. II se peut; mais périssons en résistant, et, si le néant nous est reservé, ne faisons pas que ce soit une justice. SÉNANCOUR: Obermann, lettre xc.
The story is chipped off, so to speak, and passes with a ragged edge into nothing le néant; can anything be more sublime, especially in French? The vulgar would desire to see her corpse and burial perhaps her will read and her linen distributed. But now come and look at this on the easel. I have made some way there."
Then with the silence and the tense nerve-draw of waiting came the sense of things finished done forever. A vast, all-embracing finality "Néant" the habitant expression for the uttermost nothing, the word seemed to push at his lips. He wanted to say it, but a premonition warned him that to utter it was to make it real. Should he call upon the name of the Void, the Void would answer.
We went to the Cafe "Neant," where I let them put me in the coffin and pretend to be decaying, to amuse her. She thought it was lots of fun. "One morning Lucien had come for me as usual, put me on the divan, and seated himself at his writing table. He was just putting the last words to his novel, and the table was entirely covered with the scattered leaves, closely written.
Ah! truly, on trouve au fond de tout le vide et le neant!" "Mr. Murray, if you insist upon your bitter Osher smile, why shut your eyes to the palpable analogy suggested? Human life is as fair and tempting as the fruit of 'Ain Jidy, till stung and poisoned by the Tenthredo of sin."
He described the Louvre and the Bon Marche. He told her about the Cabaret du Neant, the Abbaye, and the various haunts to which foreigners go. He painted in glowing colours the side of Paris which he despised. He pressed her to come with him. "You know, you say you love me, but if you really loved me you'd want to marry me. You've never asked me to marry you." "You know I can't afford it.
"Le coeur trempe sept fois dans le neant divin." People talk of the temptations to crime connected with darkness, but the dumb sense of desolation which is often the product of the most brilliant moment of daylight must not be forgotten either.
The great governmental secret of that imperium which Prince Bismarck had the insight and the courage to call Le Neant, has been the extirpation of every intellectual hope. To pronounce in the face of such a past the word Evolution, which is precisely the expression of the highest intellectual hope, is a gruesome pleasantry. There can be no evolution out of a grave.
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