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"I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the daytime, you would give me a sou!"
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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."
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"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."
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"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."
"A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas."
"This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."
"Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?"
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