"La pensée console de tout et remédie à tout. Si quelquefois elle vous fait du mal, demandez-lui le remède du mal qu'elle vous a fait, elle vous le donnera."
— Nicolas Chamfort

January 1, 1970

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Ask of all-healing, all-consoling thought Salve and solace for the woe it wrought. — As translated by Samuel Beckett, in Samuel Beckett: Collected Poems 161-163