Le bonheur dure une seconde. Lorsque l’on se réveille, à l’aube, il y a ne moment agréable, juste avant que la conscience se souvienne et que le coeur se serre.

PISTOL-Say’st thou me so? is that a ton of moys? Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French What is his name.Boy-Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele?French Soldier-Monsieur le Fer.Boy- He says his name is Master...

Tu seras toujours mon ami. Tu auras envie de rire avec moi.

Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg’s quarterly Grand Street in the autumn of 1981. The essay opened...

If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn’t be worth living.

Détaché de ses amarres, son cœur flottait à la dérive dans la ciel.

He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a...

I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.

yes,” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-​u-​i and not w-​e-​e.

– Tonton Gabriel, dit Zazie paisiblement, tu m’as pas encore espliqué si tu étais un hormosessuel ou pas, primo, et deuzio où t’avais été pêcher toutes les belles choses en langue forestière que tu dégoisais...

I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.

Je t’inventeraiDes mots insensésQue tu comprendrasJe te parleraiDe ces amants-làQui ont vue deux foisLeurs coeurs s’embraserJe te raconteraiL’histoire de ce roiMort de n’avoir pasPu te rencontrerNe me quitte pasNe me quitte pasNe me quitte pas

Etre pauvre à Paris, c’est être pauvre deux fois.

I’m all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Give us being and feeling over having any day.

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

The physical shape of Mollies paralyses and contortions fit the pattern of late-nineteenth-century hysteria as well — in particular the phases of “grand hysteria” described by Jean-Martin Charcot, a French physician who became world-famous in...

La tenancière m’offrit une assiettée d’amandes grillées et me promit sa meilleure fille pourfêter ma majorité.– Sans rancune, petit?– Sans rancune, madame.– Comme c’est touchant… Et puis, arrête de me broder avec tes « madame...