"J'ai eu, aussi, moi, mon époque nerveuse, mon époque sentimentale, et j'en porte encore, comme un galérien, la marque au cou. Avec ma main brûlée j'ai le droit maintenant d'écrire des phrases sur la nature du feu."
— Gustave Flaubert

January 1, 1970

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I, too, had my nervous period, my sentimental period, and I still bear its mark, like a galley slave, on my neck. With my burnt hand I now have the right to write some sentences on the nature of fire. (5-6 July 1852)