Le Guerrier appliqué
Jean Paulhan“_ Claude de Saint-Martin observes that man would never succeed in forming an exact and penetrating view of the world if he did not have illnesses, dreams, and various other intoxications or madness at his disposal. It would be necessary to add: certain more general enterprises, such as slavery or war. We will see in The Applied Warrior how the trenches, the death of a friend, a rather clumsy attack can teach a young soldier what love, marriage, work and the other distractions of life would have taught him more carelessly.
Dedication of Jean Paulhan
“Common life has always seemed so complicated and dangerous to me that I found peace and rest in war”
Tchouang-tseu Dedication by Jean Paulhan.
“ To make themselves believe that they were just, gentle and liberal in peace, people have long invented wars. Who goes without approval?» (signed in Chinese characters) Dedication of Jean Paulhan to Cassilda and André Rolland de Renéville.
“ No matter how much I have applied myself over the course of an already long life, I have not yet managed to identify the essential detail which must separate the state of war from the state of peace” Tchouang-tseu Dedication of Jean Paulhan to Mr. Massin.
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Editeur : Gallimard