My Sweet Alpha
We have required infinite anguish, enormous
catastrophes—even those yet to come—in order to rediscover the simple truth,
known throughout almost all previous centuries, that Man, in himself, is nothing
but an evil beast.
“Or, to return definitively to our subject: to emphasize its impossibility is very
far from depriving the occupation of translating of meaning, for no one would even
think of considering it absurd for us to speak to each other in our mother tongue
yet, nevertheless, that is also a utopian exercise.”
Bab Populer