Aussie Man Quotes

Several years ago, Great Britain funded a study to determine why the head on a man's penis is larger than the shaft. The study took two years and cost over 1.2 million pounds. The study concluded that the reason the head of a man's penis is larger than the shaft is to provide the man with more pleasure during sex. After the results were published, France decided to conduct their own study on the same subject. They were convinced that the results of the British study were incorrect. After three years of research at a cost of in excess of 2 million Euros, the French researchers concluded that the head of a man's penis is larger than the shaft to provide the woman with more pleasure during sex. When the results of the French study were released, Australia decided to conduct their own study. The Aussies didn't really trust British or French studies. So, after nearly three hours of intensive research and a cost of right around 75 dollars (three cases of beer), the Aussie study was complete. They concluded that the reason the head on a man's penis is larger than the shaft is to prevent your hand from flying off and hitting you in the forehead.

À partir de là, le dialogue de la journée suivait une pente uniformément descendante, mais avec des lèvres et des mains chaleureuses et languides flottant sur les surface les plus sensibles du corps, le monde était aussi près que possible de la perfection. Freud appelait cela un état de perversité polymorphe impersonnel et le regardait d'un mauvais oeil, mais je doute fort qu'il ait jamais eu les mains de Lil lui frôlant le corps. Ou même celles de sa propre femme dans le même rôle. Freud était un bien grand homme, mais je n'arrive pas à me faire à l'idée que quelqu'un lui ait jamais efficacement flatté le pénis.

On comprenait que les hommes pourraient être aussi efficaces que Dieu dans d'autres domaines que la destruction.

There were only two things he was really good at. Riding bulls and satisfying women. But Joss wasn’t just another woman to him. Deep in his bones he knew she was special. She was the eight-second ride. The gold buckle.

If I fuck you, you’ll think all your prayers have been answered. I’ll make you see god, Middleton. I’ll make you think I am god.

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If I fuck you, you’ll think all your prayers have been answered. I’ll make you see god, Middleton. I’ll make you think I am god.” Ty Henderson - Act Your Age

I liked you better when you were drugged.” “Yeah well, I liked you better when I was drugged too.

Sex makes people dumb.” Joss laughed. Never had truer words been spoken. “That’s deep there, cowboy.” “Hey.” He grinned. “I have layers, you know.” Oh yeah, he was a regular onion.

Lie back, baby. I’m about to fly you to the moon.

Une femme ne révèle pas sa culpabilité aussi facilement qu’un homme.—A woman does not reveal her guilt as easily as a man.

He slid the jack beneath the frame. “I’m down here now...Might as well go all the way.” Joss shut her eyes as his words conjured other things he could do while he was down there. Oh God. She was going to hell.

He cocked an eyebrow and Joss’s gaze was once again drawn to the white scar that slashed it in half. “You been Googling me?” Joss’s cheeks warmed. “I needed to know I wasn’t letting an axe murderer into our house.

You’re driving me crazy.” His ragged words were barely louder than a whisper but wicked hot against her neck. And he didn’t sound cocky or so sure of himself now. He sounded completely at her mercy. Like he might just die if she stopped.

What do you want?” he whispered against the thick thud of her carotid pulse. “Tell me what you want, baby.” No one had ever called her baby. The fact that it had come from a guy seven years her junior should have been ridiculous. But it wasn’t. It curled her toes.

Je ne méprise pas les hommes. Si je le faisais, je n'aurais aucun droit, ni aucune raison, d'essayer de les gouverner. Je les sais vains, ignorants, avides, inquiets, capables de presque tout pour réussir, pour se faire valoir, même à leurs propres yeux, ou tout simplement pour éviter de souffrir. Je le sais : je suis comme eux, du moins par moment, ou j'aurais pu l'être. Entre autrui et moi, les différences que j'aperçois sont trop négligeables pour compter dans l'addition finale. Je m'efforce donc que mon attitude soit aussi éloignée de la froide supériorité du philosophe que l'arrogance du César.

If anyone had told Joss last week that she’d be dry humping a twenty-seven-year-old she’d met only five days prior in the bathroom of the loft above her garage, she’d have committed them for psychiatric evaluation. But here she was and she could not get enough. Her body throbbed with need. Maybe she needed committing?

His jerky breath hit her system like a drug and she was in thrall. Of his potency. And hers. She didn’t want to stop. She wanted to keep going, keep touching him like this until he lost control. She wanted to bring him to his knees, this cocky young guy who called her baby and made her want things she hadn’t even realized she’d been missing.

Thankfully he was wearing a towel—even if it was positioned sinfully low on his hips. But that still left an awful lot to look at. An awful lot. Like the scattered droplets of water on his shoulders and chest and abs. And his nipples. Flat and brown and so evenly spaced she wanted to get out a ruler and measure them. Or possibly use her tongue.

Tout cela devient assez compliqué, je m'en doute, mais en réalité le personnage de Brill ne faisait pas, à l'origine, partie de mon plan. Le cerveau créateur de la guerre devait appartenir à quelqu'un d'autre, un autre personnage inventé, aussi peu réel que Brick et Flora, Tobak et tout le reste, mais plus j'avançais, mieux je comprenais à quel point je me bernais moi-même.

She didn’t notice the partially fogged vanity mirror as she walked toward the bathroom, either—two thick fluffy towels in hand. Not until she was inside anyway and a pair of jeans and fringed leather chaps tossed carelessly over the edge of the vanity came into view. She almost dropped the towels as she spun around. “Hey.” The Dixie Chicks crooning, there’s your trouble, straight into her ear was a particularly ironic twist.

She broke off the kiss again on a strangled gasp, staring at him, her chest heaving. “We’re not having sex here tonight.” Even as she said it, she rode his thigh harder. Troy’s eyes almost rolled back in his head at her barely leashed restraint, at the buck of hips that didn’t seem to buy the message her mouth was selling. “Okay,” he agreed. If she chose to dry hump him all the way to orgasm beneath a billion stars he’d be in that.

You should come and watch me.” She frowned. “Watch you?” A small smiled nudged his lips. She didn’t need to be a mind reader to know where his mind had just gone. “Ride bulls. On the weekend.” There were probably about a hundred things she’d put her hand up to watch this guy do, a lot of them just as dirty as the things he’d been thinking. Watching him get tossed around for entertainment on the back of a large angry animal wasn’t one of them.

I can’t have sex with you, Troy.” “Yeah. You’ve mentioned it once or twice.” She groaned again. “It’s just that…you’re so damn tempting.” He grinned. At her conflict and the absurdity of it. As if they were teenagers who’d sworn a virginity pledge and had the purity rings to prove it. He rolled up on his side, supporting his head with his palm. “I’m sorry. For being so tempting.” She snorted. “No you’re not.” Troy laughed. “You’re right. I’m not.

L'insignifiance, mon ami, c'est l'essence de l'existence. Elle est avec nous partout et toujours. Elle est présente même là où personne ne veut la voir : dans les horreurs, dans les luttes sanglantes, dans les pires malheurs. Cela exige souvent du courage pour la reconnaître dans des conditions aussi dramatiques et pour l'appeler par son nom. Mais il ne s'agit pas seulement de la reconnaître, il faut l'aimer, l'insignifiance, il faut apprendre à l'aimer.

How old are you?” “Twenty-seven.” Twenty-seven. Older than she’d thought. But still… “I’m thirty-four.” He lifted a shoulder. “So?” So? Joss sighed. “That’s seven years older than you.” He grinned. “Seven years more experienced.” Joss suppressed the urge to laugh hysterically. If he thought he’d be getting some kind of well-honed tantric experience from her, he’d be sorely let down. She was too damn tired to be some kind of Mrs. Robinson. Like he even needed one. “Look, you’re very sweet—” His dramatic wince interrupted her. “Is there where you pat me on the head and tell me to run along now?” It was Joss’s turn to laugh. “Something like that.” “Are you sure I can’t interest you?” He set his broad grin to stun. “I’m really very good with my hands.” Joss didn’t doubt it. “To which my flat tire can attest. But trust me, there are plenty of pretty girls your age in town who would happily volunteer for a demonstration.” And Joss was blindingly envious of every one of them. He slid his hands into his back pockets and set his jaw. “What if I don’t want a girl? What if I want a woman?

Now, grip the bull tight with your thighs.” She dutifully tensed her thighs. “Not tense. Grip. Real hard with your whole thigh.” His voice dropped, his lips pressing in closer to her ear as he murmured, “I know you know how to do that.” A surge of heat shot from her core. Didn’t he know she was having a hard enough time sitting on the damn thing as it was without sexual innuendo messing with her equilibrium? She shot him a don’t-make-me-get-off-this-thing look but gripped. Hard. “Atta girl,” he whispered. Joss gritted her teeth. “Don’t push your luck, cowboy.

Now, how are you getting back to the motel?” He looked like he was going to argue some more, shifting slowly in the gurney to a more upright position but something pulled him up short and he winced. “I’ll catch a cab.” “And is there someone who can keep an eye on you?” He’d been pretty wiped out from the morphine. She’d be more comfortable discharging him if she was doing it to someone’s care. “Are you kidding? The rodeo’s over. The motel will be full of yahooing bull riders.” “I mean someone who’ll actually look in on you, not be drunk off their ass while you throw up in your sleep and choke on your own vomit.” He cocked an eyebrow at her. “I bet you’re fun at parties.” Parties? Ha! She should be so lucky. “I’m a real treat.

She was about to take a step back when his hand slid onto her leg. Slow and lazy. “You don’t wear your scrubs home,” he murmured, his fingers idly stroking just behind her knee, the denim of her jeans no barrier to the sensations sweeping up her leg. Joss willed herself to move but not one damn synapse obeyed. It was as if his fingers had injected them with a paralyzing agent. “No.” Her voice was hushed yet high. Breathy. “It’s against hospital policy.” “Pity.” He smiled at her. “You look hot in them.” If it was possible to orgasm through compliments alone, she’d just moved into the red zone. He was dangerously good for her ego. He was bleary-eyed, rubbing his right hand over his hair, his biceps and abs shifting nicely. A flush of heat surged from the tips of her toes to the top of her head. Sweet baby cheeses. Maybe she was perimenopausal? Thirty-four was young but it wasn’t unheard of…

Think you can last eight seconds?” Joss was one hundred percent, absolutely, positively certain that she would not. She was even more certain that she’d break something. Unfortunately, nerves made her mouthy. “Eight seconds, huh? I heard you rodeo guys had a short fuse. We have pills for that now you know?” He laughed and his lips were suddenly close to her ear again. “I can go longer than eight seconds as you well know. But even if that were true, I promise you, doc, it’d be the best eight seconds of your life.” Great. Now all she was going to think about while a piece of machinery spun and bucked beneath her was riding Troy in exactly the same way. Was it possible to have a mechanical-bull-induced orgasm? That would be seriously embarrassing. Certainly more than the good folk of Plainview would have expected from an innocent night out at the Bull Bar. There were children watching for the love of Mike.

Do I look stupid to you? That thing is just plain crazy.” “And when was the last time you did something crazy?” Joss cocked an eyebrow. Was he kidding? “You have to ask?” A slow lazy grin warmed his face. “That wasn’t crazy. That was hot.” She rolled her eyes. He would say that, wouldn’t he? “My skirt.” “Is long.” He dismissed it with a wave of his hand. “Too long to flash anything when you fall off.” “When huh?” He nodded. “When.” “I’m more worried it might end up above my head.” He laughed but stopped abruptly when she glared at him. “I promise I won’t look when you get tossed.” Joss glanced around her at the full restaurant. “And what about the other hundred people in here?” “Oh come on.” He affected an air of fake severity. “Good decent southern folk would surely avert their eyes from a lady in a state of undress.” She snorted. Half the men in here would trample over their wives for a glimpse of panties.

I just wish I knew what he was thinking, you know?” Her eyebrows knotted as she searched his face for who knew what. “You’re a guy. Can you shed any light on what the hell goes through a teenage boy’s head?” Troy was pretty sure she did not want to know the kind of things that occupied the brain of a fifteen-year-old male. There was some stuff mothers just shouldn’t know. “Well that would be breaking the guy code,” he teased. “Suffice to say that most of it involves chicks and heavy levels of nudity.” “Oh God…” She groaned. “Don’t. I’m not ready for that. I don’t even want to think about it.” She chewed on her bottom lip and Troy lost his place in the conversation. He wanted to step right up into her space, slide his hand onto her waist and soothe that bottom lip with his tongue. His dick got hard at the thought but he was pretty sure she’d knee him in the balls if he even attempted such a move. Unfortunately, not even the prospect of that killed his erection.

I’ve got some good physical therapy for you. Any good at fencing?” Joss almost choked on her mouthful of coffee. She sat up straight in her chair and shook her head. “No, Gus.” Troy ignored her. “I can fence in my sleep.” “Gus.” She narrowed her eyes at her father-in-law who could be stubborn as a mule. “He dislocated his elbow. He shouldn’t be doing any heavy lifting with his arm. Not to mention it’s going to be in a splint for a couple of weeks.” “He’s still got his right arm, don’t he?” “Yeah,” Troy drawled, amusement flattening his vowels even more than usual. “I’ve still got my right arm.” She glared at Gus. “You want to take on a one-armed fencer?” “Damien’s got his summer job starting today so I’m losing my sidekick and Cody’s out with his broken leg for another couple of weeks. It’d be handy to have even one extra hand on.” “I bet I can fence better one-armed than most men can with two.” There was no bravado to the claim. His expression was sincere and Joss believed him. She didn’t doubt this man could do a crap ton of things better than most men.

La logothérapie, sans nier le caractère transitoire essentiel de l’existence humaine, n’est pas pessimiste mais plutôt «activiste». En termes figurés, disons que le pessimiste ressemble à la personne qui voit avec tristesse son calendrier s’amincir de jour en jour à mesure qu’il en enlève les feuilles. Par contre, la personne qui aborde avec enthousiasme les problèmes de la vie ressemble à la personne qui range soigneusement les feuilles de son calendrier après avoir griffonné quelques notes à l’endos. Elle peut se pencher avec joie et fierté sur toute la richesse contenue dans ces notes, sur tous les moments d’une vie dont elle a pleinement joui. Que lui importe de vieillir? Pourquoi regretter sa jeunesse et envier les jeunes? Pour les possibilités que leur réserve l’avenir? Non point. Elle est pleinement consciente de la richesse de son passé, qui contient non seulement la réalité du travail accompli et de ses amours vécues, mais aussi de ses souffrances bravement affrontées. C’est encore de ces souffrances qu’elle est le plus fière, même si elles ne peuvent pas inspirer d’envie.

Il avait lu des masses de livres là-dessus, tout récement celui d'Hannah Arendt sur le procès d'Eichmann à Jérusalem, il savait que le jour où il écrirait sérieusement, ce serait à ce sujet. Le nazisme, tous les habitants de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle doivent se débrouiller avec, vivre avec l'idée que c'est arrivé, comme lui devait vivre avec la mort de sa soeur Jane. On peut ne pas y penser, n'empêche que c'est là, et il faudrait que ce soit aussi dans son livre. Rien de plus éloigné du tao que le nazisme. Les Japonais, pourtant, qui vénèrent le tao, avaient été alliés aux nazis. S'ils l'avaient emporté... Un moment, il laissa miroiter cette idée. On avait déjà fait des livres de ce genre, il en avait lu un d'après lequel le Sud avait gagné la guerre de Sécession. Il se demanda ce que serait un monde issu de la victoire de l'Axe, quinze ans plus tòt. Qui dirigerait le Reich ? Hitler toujours l'un de ses lieutenants ? Est-ce que cela changerait quelque chose que ce soit Bormann, Himmler, Goering ou Baldur von Schirach? Est-ce que cela changerait quelque chose pour lui, habitant de Point Reyes, Marin County ? Et quoi?

I meant what I said about sex.” His hand slid all the way up her leg, pushing what little skirt was still covering her out of the way, holding it in a bunch at her belly button. Her nudity was fully exposed to his gaze and he looked his fill, breathing out hard. “Who said anything about sex?” He leaned in, his mouth dropping to the pale slice of skin between where his hand held her skirt and the thatch of hair between her legs. She wasn’t trimmed as was the fashion among the women he usually took to his bed but Troy was not a fussy guy and here, under the stars, his head filling with the musky scent of her arousal, au naturel seemed fitting. The ragged pant of her breathing stuttered into the air as he lazily stroked his tongue down. Down. Down. Down. She roused. Shifted. Raised herself up on her elbows, her abs tightening, her thighs tensing. “I think you’ll find that still counts,” she said, obviously throwing one last-ditch effort into denying herself the pleasure she so clearly craved. He chuckled low, his warm breath fanning her belly, satisfied to feel gooseflesh stippling the soft skin. “If you think this is sex, you need to read some more textbooks, doc.

Un mot sur la « libre-pensée », ou plus précisément sur l’obligation quasi morale qui est faite à tout homme de « penser par lui-même » : cette exigence n’est nullement conforme à la nature humaine, car l’homme normal et vertueux, en tant que membre d’une collectivité sociale et traditionnelle, se rend compte en général des limites de sa compétence. De deux choses l’une : ou bien l’homme est exceptionnellement doué sur tel ou tel plan, et alors rien ne peut l’empêcher de penser d’une manière originale, ce qu’il fera d’ailleurs en accord avec la tradition — dans les mondes traditionnels qui seuls nous intéressent ici— précisément parce que son intelligence lui permet de saisir la nécessité de cet accord ; ou bien l’homme est d’intelligence moyenne ou médiocre, sur un plan quelconque ou d’une façon générale, et alors il s’en remettra aux jugements de ceux qui sont plus compétents que lui, et c’est là dans son cas la chose la plus intelligente à faire. La manie de détacher l’individu de la hiérarchie intellectuelle, c’est-à-dire de l’individualiser intellectuellement, est une violation de sa nature et équivaut pratiquement à l’abolition de l’intelligence, et aussi des vertus sans les quelles l’entendement réel ne saurait s’actualiser pleinement. On n’aboutit ainsi qu’à l’anarchie et à la codification de l’incapacité de penser.

Les Apsarâs sont les Nymphes célestes, qui symbolisent aussi ces possibilités informelles ; elles correspondent aux Hûris du Paradis islamique (El-Jannah), qui, sauf dans les transpositions dont il est susceptible au point de vue ésotérique et qui lui confèrent des significations d’ordre plus élevé, est proprement l’équivalent du Swarga hindou.

Logiquement, la démocratie s'oppose à la tyrannie, mais en fait, elle y mène ; c'est-à-dire : comme sa réaction est sentimentale — sans quoi elle serait centripète et tendrait vers la théocratie, seule garantie d'une liberté réaliste — elle n'est qu'un extrême qui, par sa négation irréaliste de l'autorité et de la compétence, appelle fatalement un autre extrême et une nouvelle réaction autoritaire, autoritaire celle-ci et tyrannique par son principe même. L'illusion démocratique apparaît surtout dans les traits suivants : en démocratie, est vrai ce que croit la majorité ; c'est elle qui « crée » pratiquement la vérité ; la démocratie elle-même n'est vraie que dans la mesure où — et aussi longtemps que — la majorité y croit, elle porte donc en son sein les germes de son suicide. L'autorité, qu'on est bien obligé de tolérer sous peine d'anarchie, vit à la merci des électeurs, d'où l'impossibilité de gouverner réellement ; l'idéal de « liberté » fait du gouvernement un prisonnier qui doit suivre constamment les pressions des divers groupes d'intérêt ; les campagnes électorales elles-mêmes prouvent que les aspirants à l'autorité doivent duper les électeurs, et les moyens de cette duperie sont si grossiers et stupides, et constituent un tel avilissement du peuple, que cela devrait suffire pour réduire à néant le mythe de la démocratie moderne. Ce n'est pas à dire qu'aucun genre de démocratie ne soit possible : mais alors il s'agit d'abord de collectivités restreintes — nomades surtout — et ensuite d'une démocratie intérieurement aristocratique et théocratique, non d'un égalitarisme laïc imposé à de grands peuples sédentaires. "La Transfiguration de l'homme" (1995)

Thanksgiving Day finally arrived. I remember feeling so proud to have my family meet my Aussie man. We had just eaten an epic feast of deviled eggs, turkey and stuffing, lots of gravy, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, and soft rolls with stacks of butter. We took a break before the desserts came out, and the menfolk headed into the living room to watch football. But Steve wandered back into the kitchen where I was helping to clear the dishes and clean up. He took the time to talk to each of my sisters and my mom, getting to know the whole family. I thought he was very considerate, because I knew instinctively that this wasn’t so easy for him. He was a bit shy, and totally out of his element. He had never visited the United States before, or been this serious about a girl. We had spent only a few days with each other, but both of us seemed to know that his visit was more than just a casual meeting. Being together felt more and more like destiny.

...Trying to break into the Australian embassy..." "Hey, 'Free New Zealand,' man!" He tried to raise his fist in protest, but was prevented by his handcuffs. "Aussie tyranny has got to stop!" The officer shook his head. "They're separate countries. They have nothing to do with one another." "Really?" His eyebrow rose in surprise. "You sure?" "Yes." "...Oops." He shrugged. "Well I guess I owe them an apology then.

Showing you I am a man of action.

Buck, no!” He lowered her to the ground with a plonk before catching her wrist as she scrambled to find her footing. “You’re marrying my man, Aussie. That deserves a bug.” “A bug?” Emma and I said in unison. “Yeah” Buck shrugged. “A Buck hug.” I burst out laughing. “You’re ridiculous.” He grinned. “And yet the ladies still love me.

Aussi, laissez-moi le répéter, l'évolution est synonyme d'espoir.

Masterclass for Humans (The Sonnet) Only the Native Americans are real Americans, Everybody else is an immigrant. Before you tell someone to go back to their country, Start by heading back to Britain yourself. Only Indigenous people are real Canadians, Kiwis, and Aussies, everybody else is an immigrant. Before you yell slurs at an immigrant of today, Start by heading back to Europe yourself. Turkey was transformed by one man, Upon the foundation of thoughts most rational. Before you bring back the days of fanaticism, Start by taking down the statues of Mustafa Kemal. India never had any organized religion, Brahmin barbarians peddled a myth to have control. Before you cremate a secular beacon into safron ashes, Wipe out all memories of Kabir, Ambedkar and Tagore. From discrimination to assimilation, That's how we walk the course of progress. Till every trace of intolerance is history, Keep on struggling against mindlessness.

Un des abus les plus répandus de la perspective sacrificielle est la guerre intertribale permanente chez les peuplades dites primitives, et aussi chez les castes guerrières des civilisations citadines. Bien entendu, si les Peaux-Rouges par exemple, sont à peu près toujours sur le sentier de la guerre, c'est a priori par une sorte de réalisme à la fois spirituel et écologique : l'idée fondamentale, c'est que sans l'épreuve permanente, la société dégénère ; ce qui est vrai pour une société de kshatriyas, comme diraient les Hindous, mais non pour une société de brâhmanas. Si la grande majorité d'une collectivité humaine était composée d'hommes intellectuellement et sprirituellement très supérieurs -- qui portent le sacrifice ou la victoire en eux-mêmes -- la guerre endémique ne serait ni utile ni à plus forte raison nécessaire ; mais de telles sociétés n'existent plus, et par conséquent -- la Bhagavadgîtâ en témoigne -- la lutte entre héros est un bien au point de vue de l'éducation caractérielle. N'empêche que les luttes continuelles entre tribus comportent incontestablement des éléments abusifs, conformément aux tendances générales de l' "âge de fer".

Que les forts attaquent les faibles, c'est un mal parfois inévitable et même à certains égards une loi naturelle, à condition toutefois que les moyens ne violent pas les normes de la nature comme c'est le cas dans les guerres mécanisées, et que la force ne serve pas des idées intrinsèquement fausses, ce qui serait une anomalie de plus (1) ; mais que les forts écrasent les faibles au moyen d'une hypocrisie intéressée et des bassesses qui en résultent, cela n'est ni naturel ni inévitable, et il est gratuit et même infame de mettre sur le compte de la "sensiblerie" toute opinion qui condamne ces méthodes ; le "réalisme" politique peut justifier les violences, jamais les vilénies. (1) C'est donc surtout aux guerres tribales ou féodales que nous pensons, ou encore aux guerres d'expansion des civilisations traditionnelles. D'aucuns objecteront qu'il y a toujours eu des machines et qu'un arc n'est pas autre chose, ce qui est aussi faux que de prétendre qu'un cercle est une sphère ou qu'un dessin est une statue. Il y a là une différence de dimensions dont les causes sont profondes et non quantitatives.

Le "vitalisme" philosophique dissimule lui aussi sous les traits d'une logique impeccable une pensée fallacieuse et proprement infra-humaine. Les adorateurs de la "vie", pour lesquels la religion - ou la sagesse - n'est qu'un trouble-fête inintelligible, factice et morbide, oublient avant tout les vérités suivantes : que l'intelligence humaine est capable d'objectiver la vie et de s'y opposer d'une certaine manière, ce qui ne peut pas être dépourvu de sens, toute chose ayant sa raison d'être ; que c'est par capacité d'objectivation et d'opposition au subjectif que l'homme est homme, la vie et le plaisir étant communs aussi à toutes les créatures infra-humaines ; qu'il n'y a pas de la vie, mais aussi la mort, et qu'il n'y a pas que le plaisir, mais aussi la douleur, ce dont l'homme seul peut se rendre compte a priori ; que l'homme doit suivre sa nature comme les animaux suivent la leur, et qu'en la suivant pleinement il est porté à transcender les apparences et à leur donner une signification qui dépasse leur plan mouvant et qui les unit à une même réalité stable et universelle. Car l'homme, c'est l'intelligence, et l'intelligence, c'est le dépassement des formes et la réalisation de l'invisible Essence ; qui dit intelligence humaine, dit absoluité et transcendance. De toutes les créatures terrestres, l'homme seul sait : premièrement, que le plaisir est contingent et éphémère ; et deuxièmement, qu'il n'est pas partagé par tous, c'est-à-dire que d'autres ego ne jouissent pas du plaisir de "notre ego", et qu'il y a toujours - quelle que soit notre jouissance - d'autres créatures qui souffrent, et inversement ; ce qui prouve que le plaisir n'est pas tout, ni la vie. La religion ou la métaphysique surgissent bien plus profondément de la nature spécifiquement humaine - "nature surnaturelle" précisément dans ses profondeurs - que les caractères que l'homme partage avec l'animal et la plante. Réfuter l'erreur n'est pas ignorer que son existence est nécessaire ; les deux choses se situent sur des plans différents. Nous n'acceptions pas l'erreur, mais nous acceptons son existence, puisqu'"il faut qu'il y ait du scandale"..

Lordy... This man should be locked up. A smile that could surely cause mass ovulation had to be illegal.

The past few years alone had seen several dozen mega-vi posts about how such-and-such “will restore your faith in humanity.” Among the subjects it claimed had restorative powers were pugs, kids, pizza, a hospital for bats, pictures of Jon Hamm’s penis, so-called “Aussie Moments,” and “this man eating a muffin in the background of a Labour MP’s interview.

It was easier to hear the lower tones of a man’s voice, but with an Aussie accent, the different, broader vowel sounds were already proving a challenge. Consonants were always the hardest for Ethan to hear, and Shiv seemed to drop them altogether on some words, especially the letter “r,” although he couldn’t be sure since he didn’t have Michael to ask.

Napoléon: - Tu recevras donc un sabre d'honneur. Mariolle: - C'est que... j'en ai déjà un, sire. Napoléon: - Une carabine d'honneur alors. Mariolle: - Ça aussi, j'en ai une ! Napoléon: - Dans ce cas, tu mérites la légion ! Mariolle: - C'est que, mon Empereur, vous me l'avez épinglée sur le poitrail à Boulogne. Napoléon: - Mais alors, que veux-tu, bougre de barbu ? Mariolle: - Je veux un bain chaud.

sighed with bliss. She’d always known he had beautiful hands and she needed that human touch for healing her frightened heart. ‘I’ll never sleep, but I will have to move. My legs have gone numb under Harley.’ ‘Here. Let me lift him. Would you like to sleep with him tonight in your bed?’ ‘Put him in his own bed and we’ll leave the door open. I’ll hear him if he wants me. I need your arms around me tonight, Iain. He won’t mind me sleeping with you – though he might come in in the morning.’ Iain laughed softly, dropped a tender kiss on her lips and lifted the boy easily out of her lap to carry him up the stairs. Chapter Fifty-two Noni Half an hour later, Noni had showered and was sipping the hot chocolate Iain had insisted she needed. He came back into the room, sat down and slid his arm around her. ‘This wasn’t quite the situation and setting I’d planned, but I do have something to say.’ Noni put down the cup and tried to calm the sudden thumping in her heart. She looked into the face of the man she’d come to love and knew, without a doubt, that she had to stay with him despite the dilemmas they hadn’t resolved. It wasn’t just Harley who’d been heartbroken that he’d left. ‘First of all, I’m sorry for accusing you of knowing Jacinta was planning on staying with you. On Saturday, it took me until about fifty kilometers south of Burra to realize that of course you hadn’t known she planned to stay behind. I think I always knew you’d never stoop to underhanded methods to arrange that change of plan.’ He sighed. ‘It was all Jacinta’s idea, although for the life of me I couldn’t understand why she left telling me until the last minute.’ He grimaced and squeezed her shoulder. ‘I was so disappointed in her lack of loyalty, I blamed you. And I was over the top about it. I’m sorry.’ Noni ran her finger along his jaw. ‘I understand that. Before she went to bed, Jacinta told me she wanted to make sure we still saw each other. That she could see we were good for each other if we could hang in there. She stayed so we would still keep in contact.’ ‘She’s a stubborn young woman.’ ‘Just like her father.’ Noni took a deep breath and hoped the offer was still open. ‘But I can see what she means. I will take you on your terms, Iain. I think we should try to make a life together, and it’s no good Harley and me staying in Burra if our hearts are down in Sydney with you.’ She expelled her breath. There. She’d said it and she meant it. He took her face in his hands and kissed her gently. ‘Ah, Noni. You’re too much for me. Thank you for your typically brave offer, but let me finish. Where was I? Oh, yes. I’m not stubborn, by the way! ‘It only took another five kilometers to realize I didn’t want to leave Burra, either. The challenges of a country practice might be the answer to rejuvenating my interest in obstetrics. But it’s you, not the town, which is drawing me back. If you’ll have me.’ Noni was lost now. ‘What are you saying, Iain?’ ‘I’m saying … I love you. I want to marry you. I want to live with you, be a part of your family and you be a part of mine, in Burra if you want to, for the rest of our lives.’ He took her hand in his and kissed her fingers. ‘Say that again,’ Noni whispered. She couldn’t believe it. ‘I love you. The first time I saw you it was as if I’d been searching for you my whole life. Or maybe we’ve connected before in