Monday, August 06, 2018
Party Membership
Paul Valéry (1871-1945), Collected Works, Vol. 14: Analects, tr. Stuart Gilbert (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970), p. 71:
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You belong to a party, my friend. That is to say, you have to applaud or vilify though it goes against the grain. The party insists on it.
Vous êtes d'un parti, mon ami, c'est-à-dire que vous applaudissez ou injuriez contre votre coeur. Le parti le veut.
