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by Ambroise-Paul-Touissaint-Jules Valéry (1871 - 1945)

La bêtise n’est pas mon fort. J’ai vu...
Language: French (Français) 
« La bêtise n’est pas mon fort. J’ai vu beaucoup d’individus, 
j’ai visité quelques nations, j’ai pris ma part d’entreprises 
diverses sans les aimer, j’ai mangé presque tous les jours, 
j’ai touché à des femmes. Je revois maintenant quelques 
centaines de visages, deux ou trois grands spectacles, 
et peut-être la substance de vingt livres. Je n’ai pas 
retenu le meilleur ni le pire de ces choses : est resté 
ce qui l’a pu.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Ambroise-Paul-Touissaint-Jules Valéry (1871 - 1945), no title, appears in La soirée avec monsieur Teste, excerpt - first paragraph [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Jean-Louis Petit (b. 1937), "La soirée avec monsieur Teste", 1997 [high voice and piano], from Livre de poésies, no. 11. [ sung text not verified ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-05-08
Line count: 8
Word count: 72

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