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Leave, burning your past won't be a problem, if you -- take the fire with you.
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Dec 16, 2025
Dec 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM UTC
[ Leave, burning your past ]
Leave, burning your past won't be a problem, if you -- take the fire with you.
Biographical story "Le Pays des autres, 3e partie - J'emporterai le feu" ("I will take the fire with me", 2025, Leïla Slimani) Autobiographical story "La difficulté d'être" (1947, Jean Cocteau) - 'Si le feu brûlait ma maison, qu'emporterais-je? J'aimerais emporter le feu' (If my house was on fire, what would I take with me? I would want to take the fire with me) Collection "Passage Passion"
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Dec 16, 2025
Dec 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM UTC
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