“The natural is boring.”

Original: Le naturel est ennuyeux. — A deliberately provocative challenge to the common assumption that naturalness is automatically desirable. · Mauvaises pensées et autres (French)

• Art
• Convention
• Style

“The one who does not share our aversions repels us.”

Original: Celui qui n'a pas nos répugnances nous répugne. — Shared dislikes can create a powerful and sometimes irrational sense of belonging. · Mélange (French)

• Aversion
• Belonging
• Society

“Bitterness almost always comes from not receiving a little more than one gives: the feeling of not making a good bargain.”

Original: L'amertume vient presque toujours de ne pas recevoir un peu plus que ce que l'on donne. Le sentiment de ne pas faire une bonne affaire. — Resentment is linked to an unspoken calculation of what one gives and receives. · Moralités (French)

• Bitterness
• Expectation
• Relationships