Elsa Triolet Quotes

• Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.

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  Circles, Tolerance, Acquaintance

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• You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.

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  Time, Ends, Killing Yourself

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• Time burns but leaves no ashes.

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  Ashes

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• I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity ... I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.

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  Travel, Numbers, Curiosity

  Elsa Triolet (1947). “A Fine of 200 Francs”

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• There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.

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  Distrust

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• Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.

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• Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold.

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  Justice, Vengeance, Cold

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• There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship.

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  Ships, Breathe, Deck

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• To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

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  Pessimism, Prophet, Pessimist

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