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"Moi, l’héroïne, je crache dessus. Les mômes qui se piquent deviennent tous habitués au bonheur et ça ne pardonne pas, vu que le bonheur est connu pour ses états de manque. Pour se piquer, il faut vraiment chercher à être heureux et il n’y a que les rois des cons qui ont des idées pareilles. [ …] Mais je tiens pas tellement à être heureux, je préfère encore la vie."

Romain Gary (Emile Ajar), La vie devant soi, 1975.

"‘Be what you would seem to be’ – or, if you’d like it put more simply – ‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.’"

Lewis Carrroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

"Isn’t it true that you start your life a sweet child, believing in everything under your father’s roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome, grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life."

Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 1, Ch. 13