Word: jolie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will no doubt remember, my worthy friend, the agreeable day which we passed in the delightful gardens of the Moulin Joli in charming company. You will, perhaps, also remember that after dinner . . . I let the rest of the company proceed and remained behind alone in an alley. Here an indefinite number of dead frames of little flies had been pointed out to us, belonging to the species of ephemaries whose generations succeed one another day by day. These insects only exist for ten hours...
...said he, ' in the opinion of our wisest philosophers, held that the world of the Moulin Joli could only last 18 hours, and this opinion seems to me well founded...
...acquisitions of knowledge while life is so short. My friends endeavor to console me by making me hope that my name will survive. . . . But of what use is a name to an ephemary who perishes? And what will become of all history in 18 hours, when the Moulin Joli and the whole world will come to an end, when all things will be enveloped in universal ruin? As for me, . . . one real pleasure remains, . . . and that is the conviction I have tried during my whole life to do good, and a delightful memory of having enjoyed the amiable conversation...