Even if you cannot catch a glimpse of it, it exists, that end of the tunnel. But its light, in truth, remains unknowable; other-worldly. The tunnel is a threshold, giving way to a new different world.
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To spur his people into giving the best of themselves, Zarathoustra set out to horrify them by describing what would become of “the man who would give birth to no more stars”.
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This could also be New York, Tokyo, Punxsutawney or your place. Heaven is a place on Earth, sang Belinda, but I think that rather than a spot, paradise is an instant, …
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This Wednesday marks the opening in Paris of the trial of the attacks on Charlie Hebdo. I don’t understand why the French always talk about “attentats” when these were assassinations.
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The day Miranda blinded me with her fiery youth, she forgot to read me my rights. She didn’t tell me that I had the right to remain silent, and I, well, I felt obliged to speak incessantly, to distract her, to make her laugh, so that she wouldn’t get bored.
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In Belgium, strange fruit grows on trees. In De Haan, a pretty village by the sea, streets are decorated with heavy garbage bags. I first thought this was an installation, a militant gesture to symbolize what our consumer society mainly produces today.
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Incredible how smart-eyed my father still is, just after his 97th birthday. Nothing escapes that gaze, a Breton’s gaze that has weathered winds, tides and the storms of life; a father’s gaze too, confident and good-hearted.
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I have spent part of the night on the phone with my Lebanese friends. Not a single window pane intact in Beirut, within a radius of 30 kilometres; they shattered as far as Cyprus.
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Man is made to dream, set sail, dare, seduce, love, create, discover, conquer, race, fight, build. These are our verbs. Action, conquest, spirit, gallantry, courage, friendship, these are our words.
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Hélène was fed up of never finding her undies after waking up at my place. Gotta say that we could never remember where we had tossed them.
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Is it a good idea to go away on holiday ? What are we going to do when once again confined ? Stuck on the beach like at Dunkerque in 1940, terraces off limits, …
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At the Thermae at five in the morning, there was no risk of meeting the wrong kind of person. No girls from good families, no militant tourists, no students in the throes of self-discovery. The kinds of girls you could meet were stranded, disappointed and empty-handed, or were taking a break on their way home from work, heigh-ho.
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Maurice Trintignant, the uncle of Jean Louis, the actor, was one of France’s greatest racing drivers. In 1967, he published a book intended for all car drivers entitled “How to Drive Your Car”.
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Is it because Woo Kim left her work in cars to devote herself to her art that I feel close to her ? Or because her new work, Spontaneous Hesitation, speaks of both the fear and excitement that grips us when we change lives?
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The contraption resembled a lawnmower hung from a delta’s wing. My mate Luc, a daredevil but amazing microlight pilot, wanted to know if I would like it as much as he does, or if I would be scared or God knows what.
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And what if it were those lulls that count? Not the high points, nor the striking scenes, no, the rest, the instants where nothing happens, the empty moments, the idle ones, the ones we photographed without knowing why.
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Was it a car or a bride thief? A thug on the run after having run somebody over? A couple of chicks that had invited us to spend the night?
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Can a virus destroy an atom? And set off a chain reaction? That’s what’s happening right now to Belgium’s most emblematic monument the Atomium.
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The Argentinian artist of worldwide renown – his humor is silent just like Buster Keaton’s, that he so admired – was infinitely voluble about his work, his sketchbooks, his cheerful discipline.
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After the earthquake in Lisbon in 1755, the limestone and basalt debris was recuperated to rebuild the city’s sidewalks, creating motifs.
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