Les mots ont une âme. La plupart des lecteurs, et même des écrivains, ne leur demandent qu'un sens.
Il faut trouver cette âme qui apparaît au contact d'autres mots,
qui éclate et éclaire certains livres d'une lumière inconnue, bien difficile à faire jaillir.
Words have a soul. The majority of readers, and even of writers, demand only that they have a sense.
It is necessary to find that soul, which appears in the contact with other words,
which erupts from and illumines certain books with an unknown light, one not a little difficult to cause to gush forth.
— Guy de Maupassant
Il faut trouver cette âme qui apparaît au contact d'autres mots,
qui éclate et éclaire certains livres d'une lumière inconnue, bien difficile à faire jaillir.
Words have a soul. The majority of readers, and even of writers, demand only that they have a sense.
It is necessary to find that soul, which appears in the contact with other words,
which erupts from and illumines certain books with an unknown light, one not a little difficult to cause to gush forth.
— Guy de Maupassant
