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"No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so."
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
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"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Genius: the superhuman in man."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
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"I will praise any man that will praise me."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings."
Mistake
"Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."
Courage
"We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world."
Cooperation
"In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away."
Time
"Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world."
Poetry
"I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet."
Language
"Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words."
Poetry
"I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers."
Work
"Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever."
Nothing
"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."
Friendship
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