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"It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!"
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"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"
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"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"
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"A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!"
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"It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right."
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"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds."
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"Injustice in the end produces independence."
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"The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched."
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"Society therefore is an ancient as the world."
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"But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, plants, rugs and bronzes, anything dark and gleaming-everything that all people of a certain class affect so as to be like all other people of a certain class. And his arrangements looked so much like everyone else's that they were unremarkable, though he saw them as something truly distinctive."
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"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
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"If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat."
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"He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being."
Freedom
"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it."
Mortality
"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."
Freedom
"Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself."
Art
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
Fact
"Certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction."
Memory
"It is the reflection of my face. Often in these lost days I study it: I can understand nothing of this face. The faces of others have some sense, some direction. Not mine. I cannot even decide whether it is handsome or ugly. I think it is ugly because I have been told so. But it doesn't strike me. At heart, I am even shocked that anyone can attribute qualities of this kind to it, as if you called a clod of earth or a block of stone beautiful or ugly."
Identity
"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."
Blood
"What sort of adventures?' I asked him, astonished. 'All sorts, Monsieur. Getting on the wrong train. Stopping in an unknown city. Losing your briefcase, being arrested by mistake, spending the night in prison. Monsieur, I believe the word adventure could be defined: an event out of the ordinary without being necessarily extraordinary."
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