Excerpt:
La première chose c'est qu'il fallait que je m'accept comme
j'étais. (Yousef Chahine)
"Really it is nothing, you see," he said, first in French, then in
English. "En effet c'est rien." He pointed to the place on his
starched shirt where his heart was. "I have had a bypass. I get
depressions. They are very black and I am subject to them utterly.
Please do not be concerned, it passes." Still she would not leave his
side. He smiled at her: "What is it Nabokov wrote, 'I was happy before
this, I'll be happy after'?"
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