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« En mer, je ne suis nulle part, sauf dans le monde entier. Au gré de la navigation, surgit la grande et banale question : “Qui suis-je ?” Et je réponds : “Quel est ce qui, sinon un autre, qui chaque matin, loin de recommencer, commence ?” » Que la vie demande à être considérée comme une traversée en mer, de périples en parages, Frédéric Jacques Temple en porte témoignage dans Une longue vague porteuse. Comme ce récit, toute son œuvre s'inscrit dans la lignée immémoriale de l'homo viator pour lequel la vie est un voyage avec son lot d'apprentissages et de révélations, ses étapes et ses tournants, ses instants décisifs et, parfois, la merveille d'une rencontre capitale.Poète est celui qui relève le défi des grands navigateurs pour se lancer à son tour dans une aventure où la découverte de l'autre ne se sépare plus de la volonté, chaque matin, de s'éprouver soi-même. L'amour des départs est alors, indissolublement, cosa mentale. Faire voyage de tout aura sans doute été le plus secret désir du poète de La Chasse infinie.
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"I attempt in these volumes to exhibit to the American people the most extraordinary of Frenchmen, and one of the most extraordinary of human beings. When first I ventured, many years ago, to think of this task, I soon ceased to wonder why a subject so alluring had not been undertaken before by any one employing the whole of the existing material. Voltaire was then buried under a mountain of heterogeneous record. The attempts of essayists, even those of the first rank, to characterize him truly were in some degree frustrated by an abundance of unsorted information that defied all ordinary research. Since that time the Voltairean material has continued to accumulate. The Voltaire of these volumes is the nearest to the true one that I have been able to gather and construct. I think the man is to be found in these pages delineated by himself. There was space in Voltaire to include these extremes. He was faulty enough to gratify the prejudice of that honest priest; he was good enough to kindle, justify, and sustain the enthusiasm of that young philanthropist"--
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