"Je suis profondément convaincu que le seul antidote qui puisse faire oublier au lecteur les éternels Je que l'auteur va écrire, c'est une parfaite sincérité."
— Stendhal

January 1, 1970

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I am deeply convinced that the only antidote that can make the reader forget the eternal Is that the author will write is a perfect sincerity. — Ch. 1