J'imagine qu'il y a dans chacun de nous un atome important entre nos atomes, et con- stitué par deux grains d'énergie qui voudraient bien se séparer. Ce sont des énergies contra- dictoires, mais indivisibles. La nature les a jointes pour toujours, quoique furieusement ennemies. L'une est l'éternel mouvement d'un gros électron positif, et ce mouvement engendre une suite de sons graves où l'oreille intérieure distingue sans nulle peine une pro- fonde phrase monotone: Il n'y a que moi. Il n'y a que moi. Il n'y a que moi, moi, moi . . . Quant au petit électron radicalement négatif, il crie à l'extrême de l'aigu, et perce et reperce de la sorte la plus cruelle le thème égotiste de l'autre: Oui, mais il y a un tel . . . Oui, mais il y a un tel . . . Tel, tel, tel. Et tel autre! . . . Car le nom change assez souvent . . .
VALÉRY, Monsieur Teste
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Publication Information: Book Title: Emile Zola. Contributors: F. W. J. Hemmings - author. Publisher: Clarendon Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1953. Page Number: 2.
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