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"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."
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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."

"I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear."
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"Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy."


"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"


"Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!"
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