Fragments

Question 1

L’absurde, c’est la raison lucide qui constate ses limites.

Answer 1

The absurd is lucid reason that sees its limits.

Question 2

La connaissance absolue est interdite à l’homme

Answer 2

Absolute knowledge is forbidden to man

Question 3

Tous mes jours sont des adieux.

Answer 3

All my days are goodbyes.

Question 4

la trentaine est un âge difficile. La vie est finie, l’existence commence.

Answer 4

Your thirties are a difficult age. Life is over, existence begins.

Question 5

Chaque âge a ses plaisirs, son esprit et ses moeurs.

Answer 5

Each age has its pleasures, its own spirit, and its own manners.

Question 6

Et partout, ailleurs et ici, les croyances (de toutes sortes) se multiplient, se durcissent, nous encerclent, nous envahissent, nous attaquent.

Answer 6

And everywhere, elsewhere and here, beliefs (of all kinds) are multiplying, hardening, encircling us, invading us, attacking us.

Question 7

L’obscurité marchait sans cesse à nos côtés, aussi rapide, plus rapide peut-être, que la lumière.

Answer 7

The darkness walked unceasingly by our side, as swift, perhaps faster, than the light.

Question 8

L’obscurité et sa sœur l’ignorance

Answer 8

obscurity and its sister, ignorance

Question 9

Mais nous ne voulions pas, et nous ne pouvions pas, pendant longtemps, les voir.

Answer 9

But we didnt want to, and we couldnt, for a long time, see them.

Question 10

toute foi suppose une croyance - mais le contraire n’est pas vrai

Answer 10

all faith presupposes a belief - but the opposite is not true