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Struck with a fatal illness for 12 years, the author questions his relationship with finitude and his resilience. He juxtaposes the anguish of death which gripped him at a young age, with his amazing vitality. It is first a stimulus to live with intensity, as much in his initial field of research in fundamental Physics, as in his personal life and in his therapist being. The irruption of the illness mobilizes his vital forces in a new way and brings him to think about death, his death, and the counter-poisons for his anguish. This text was adapted to the Revue after his death.