Un Canadien errant,
Banni de ses foyers,
Parcourait en pleurant
Des pays étrangers.
Un jour, triste et pensif,
Assis au bord des flots,
Au courant fugitif
Il adressa ces mots
"Si tu vois mon pays,
Mon pays malheureux,
Va, dis à mes amis
Que je me souviens d'eux.
"O jours si pleins d'appas
Vous êtes disparus,
Et ma patrie, hélas!
Je ne la verrai plus!
"Non, mais en expirant,
O mon cher Canada!
Mon regard languissant
Vers toi se portera . . ."
English Translation (Leonard Cohen):
An errant ‘Canadien’
Banished from his homeland
Weeping, he travels on
Wandering through foreign lands
One sad and pensive day
Sat on the river’s bank
To the evasive current,
Did he address these words:
“If you should see my home
My sad unhappy land
Go, say to all my friends
That I remember them
"O days once so full of charm
You are all gone away
And my homeland, alas!
I'll not see her again
"No, but with my last breath
O my dear Canada!
My languid glance toward home
Shall carry me to you"
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About Me
My quotations
"Never start a fight... but always finish it! "
Captain Sheridan, Babylon 5
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." Douglas Adams
"We forge the chains we wear in life." Charles Dickens
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." Gilbert Chesterton
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." Plato
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do." Bruce Lee
"Mai discutere con un idiota: la gente potrebbe non capire la differenza."
"If a person (a) is poorly, (b) receives treatment intended to make him better, and (c) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health." Sir Peter Medawar, The Art of the Soluble
"Mankind is a catalyzing enzyme for the transition from a carbon-based to a silicon-based intelligence."
Gérard Bricogne (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge)
"There's something the technicians need to learn from the artists. If it isn't aesthetically pleasing, it's probably wrong."
"Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about
can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely." Lao Tsu
"For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." Richard Harter
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain
Captain Sheridan, Babylon 5
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." Douglas Adams
"We forge the chains we wear in life." Charles Dickens
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." Gilbert Chesterton
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." Plato
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do." Bruce Lee
"Mai discutere con un idiota: la gente potrebbe non capire la differenza."
"If a person (a) is poorly, (b) receives treatment intended to make him better, and (c) gets better, then no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health." Sir Peter Medawar, The Art of the Soluble
"Mankind is a catalyzing enzyme for the transition from a carbon-based to a silicon-based intelligence."
Gérard Bricogne (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge)
"There's something the technicians need to learn from the artists. If it isn't aesthetically pleasing, it's probably wrong."
"Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about
can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely." Lao Tsu
"For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die." Richard Harter
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain
Distant battle
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- Folk song (Bob Dylan): Lily of the West
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