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Quote from Jules Laforgue,


"Et pour tuer le temps, en attendant la mort, Je fume au nez des dieux de fines cigarettes."

"And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods."


By:

Jules Laforgue (more quotes by Jules Laforgue or books by/about Jules Laforgue)

Source:

"La cigarette" (1880), quoted by Richard Klein, Cigarettes are Sublime (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993), pp. 57-58; French translation: De la cigarette... (Paris: Seghers, 1995)

Categories:

Drugs, French, Health, Prohibition, Smoking, Death

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