Q:  "If the world were coming to an end, what would it mean to you?"

A:  “I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it —  our life — hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly.”

“But let all this threaten to become impossible forever, how beautiful it would  become again! Ah! If only the cataclysm doesn't happen this time, we won't miss  visiting the new galleries of the Louvre, throwing ourselves at the feet of Miss X,  making a trip to India.”

“The cataclysm doesn't happen, we don't do any of it, because we find ourselves  back in the heart of normal life, where negligence deadens desire. And yet we  shouldn't have needed the cataclysm to love life today.  It would have been  enough to think that we are humans, and that death may come this evening.”

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