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When one gives the world what the world calls the scandale of love, one must have at least the courage of one's passion.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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Interesting article but 'scandale' is actually masculine, so it should read 'Quel scandale!'
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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We might call Vezzoli's predicament not succèss de scandale, but failure by boredom, insuccès d'ennui.
Matthew Milliner: Francesco Vezzoli's 'Sacrilegio' And The Supermodel Of Sorrows Matthew Milliner 2011
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Jim Morrison and I met because of his interest in my play The Beard, an erotic succes de scandale, a confrontation between Billy the Kid and Jean Harlow in a blue velvet eternity.
Anis Shivani: Exclusive: Beat Poet Michael McClure On Jim Morrison, The Doors, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac Anis Shivani 2011
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We might call Vezzoli's predicament not succèss de scandale, but failure by boredom, insuccès d'ennui.
Matthew Milliner: Francesco Vezzoli's 'Sacrilegio' And The Supermodel Of Sorrows Matthew Milliner 2011
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The French have a phrase for it: Succès de scandale.
Matthew Milliner: Francesco Vezzoli's 'Sacrilegio' And The Supermodel Of Sorrows Matthew Milliner 2011
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René Girard, Celui par qui le scandale arrive Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 2001, 23–24.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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The French have a phrase for it: Succès de scandale.
Matthew Milliner: Francesco Vezzoli's 'Sacrilegio' And The Supermodel Of Sorrows Matthew Milliner 2011
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The Beaver is in the same sort of soup as Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives, the film he released in fall 1992, just after la scandale Soon-yi dominated headlines the previous August.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: The Beaver Marshall Fine 2011
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We might call Vezzoli's predicament not succèss de scandale, but failure by boredom, insuccès d'ennui.
Matthew Milliner: Francesco Vezzoli's 'Sacrilegio' And The Supermodel Of Sorrows Matthew Milliner 2011
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