Today's fragment
Résonances
Préparation de l’expérience éditoriale.
Antonin Nivoche © 2026
Today's fragment
Préparation de l’expérience éditoriale.
Antonin Nivoche © 2026
The trouble with being born. Emil didn't sleep. He wrote in the dark. Truths that burn. That console too.
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Emil chose French to express his despair and dissect nothingness.
Exhilarating pessimism. life as an error to be savored with bitterness.
Patron saint of insomniacs. remedy against mandatory happiness.
A Short History of Decay (1949).
The Trouble with Being Born (1973).
7 quotes
“L'inconvénient d'être né.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“The inconvenience of being born.”
— De l'inconvénient d'être né
“Le droit de choisir sa mort.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“The right to choose one's death.”
— Inconnu
“Nous ne courons pas vers la mort, nous fuyons la catastrophe de la naissance.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“We do not run towards death, we flee from the catastrophe of birth.”
— De l'inconvénient d'être né
“La conscience est un sifflement de la flesh.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“Consciousness is a whistle of the flesh.”
— Syllogismes de l'amertume
“Vivre, c'est perdre du terrain.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“To live is to lose ground.”
— Inconnu
“La musique est le refuge des âmes que le monde a blessées.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“Music is the refuge of souls wounded by the world.”
— Inconnu
“Dieu est un mot qui a fait fortune.”
Original quote in French
Suggested translation
“God is a word that has become successful.”
— Inconnu
