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La civilisation approche peut-être d'un de ces longs hivers qu'elle connaît de temps en temps. La période chrétienne, pittoresque, passionnée et malheureuse, peut prendre fin. Une catastrophe de ce genre ne devrait pas nous désespérer.
Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that it experiences from time to time. The Christian period, picturesque, passionate and unhappy, can come to an end. A catastrophe of this kind should not cause us to despair.
Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to. Romantic Christendom — picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode — may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.
George Santayana Madrid 1863-Rome 1952 Characters and Opinions in the United States
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Dans les périodes dites heureuses, seules les réponses semblent vivantes.
In so-called happy times, only the answers seem alive.
Maurice Blanchot Quain, Saône-et-Loire, 1907 L'Espace littéraire Gallimard