Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière. Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, b… - Alfred de Musset

During the wars of the Empire, while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and neurotic generation. Conceived between battles, reared amid the noises of war, thousands of children looked about them with dull eyes while testing their limp muscles. From time to time their blood-stained fathers would appear, raise them to their gold-laced bosoms, then place them on the ground and remount their horses.

D’ailleurs la mort est toujours là ; n’est-elle pas partout sous les pieds de l’homme, qui la rencontre à chaque pas dans cette vie ? L’eau, le feu, la terre, tout la lui offre sans cesse ; il la voit partout dès qu’il la cherche, il la porte à son côté.

Great artists have no country.