a man who loses his privacy loses everything...a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster - Milan Kundera

Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flaubert's novels, stupidity is an inseparable dimension of human existence. It accompanies poor Emma throughout her days, to her bed of love and to her deathbed, over which two deadly agélastes, Homais and Bournisien, go on endlessly trading their inanities like a kind of funeral oration. But the most shocking, the most scandalous thing about Flaubert's vision of stupidity is this: Stupidity does not give way to science, technology, modernity, progress; on the contrary, it progresses right along with progress!

our dreams prove that to imagine-to dream about things that have not happened- is among mankind's deepest needs.

الوحدة: غيابٌ عذبٌ للنظرات. في أحد الأيام مرضت زميلتاها وعملت وحدها في المكتب طييلة أسبوعين، لاحظت مندهشة عند المساء بأنها لا تكاد تشعر بالتعب. مما جعلها تدرك بأن النظرات حِمْلٌ مرهِق، قبلاتٌ تمتص الدماء، وأن مِسبَر النظرات هو الذي حَفَرَ التجاعيد على وجهها