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  • 68 references 60 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Ancient Greek, Creole, Hebrew (modern), Russian
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Moonstruck
  • Poetry
  • From Aubervilliers, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
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About Me

*** Anba latè pani plézi ***

הֲבֵ֤ל הֲבָלִים֙ אָמַ֣ר קֹהֶ֔לֶת הֲבֵ֥ל הֲבָלִ֖ים הַכֹּ֥ל הָֽבֶל

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving

Without going out of my door
I can know all things of earth
Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven
The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows
Arrive without traveling
See all without looking
Do all without doing

👇🏻👇🏻 👇🏻👇🏻 👇🏻👇🏻 👇🏻👇🏻 👇🏻 👍🏻

http://www.editions-unicite.fr/auteurs/BANCE-Louis/les-rires-de-samyaza/index.php

CURRENT MISSION

Then bring me wine, the banquet bring ; Man was not form'd to live alone : I'll be that light, unmeaning thing That smiles with all, and weeps with none.

ABOUT ME

Born in Paris, he was known to have been a restless soul, traveling extensively on three continents before his death

PHILOSOPHY

The highest pleasure (tranquility and freedom from fear) was obtained by knowledge, friendship, and living a virtuous and temperate life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Ἰδού, ἡμεῖς ἀφήκαμεν πάντα, καὶ ἠκολουθήσαμέν

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen ;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.

Interests

I think there is always something to learn, life is an inexhaustible treasure, I believe that knowledge is the beginning of happiness and that ignorance is the misfortune of people. The Earth is large and life is short.

I love art in general, reading, painting, the nineteenth mainly (Gustave Moreau, Sécession Viennoise, Spilliaert, l'École de Paris, les Pré-Raphaélites, le tombeau de Philippe Pot) and picking the day.

  • arts
  • theater
  • reading
  • traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

Writers :

Dubus, Gogol, Feydeau, Gautier, Samain, Le Cardonnel, François Coppée, Wilde, Verlaine et Rimbaud, Nabokov, Marc-Aurèle, Schopenhauer • Jean Calvin • Coptic Gospel of Thomas, History books

В этой жизни умирать не ново,
Но и жить, конечно, не новей.

Films :

1) Faisons un rêve, Guitry
2) Les Enfants du Paradis, Carné
3) La Maman et la Putain, Eustache
4) La Dolce Vita, Fellini
5) Ma nuit chez Maud, Rohmer

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

BE BORN

I went to Vaduz

Teach, Learn, Share

I could not agree more

Je suis un pâle enfant du vieux Paris, et j'ai
Le regret des rêveurs qui n'ont pas voyagé.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Mutual forgiveness of each Vice

Do what you will, this Life's a Fiction
And is made up of Contradiction.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, French Guiana, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guernsey, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Réunion, Saint Lucia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States

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