The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
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Nationality: French Type: Philosopher Born: July 15, 1930 Death: October 8, 2004 |
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.
People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.