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"Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience."
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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
"Conscience without judgment is superstition."
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
"It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs."
"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience."
"Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale."
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"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."
"The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters."
"The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth."
"My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems."
"The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue."
"The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them."
"At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds."
"War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost."
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