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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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"The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it's jaws and wouldn't let me or my conscience go."
"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience."
"Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death."
"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience."
"The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience."
"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience."
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."
"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."
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"The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth."
"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."
"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture."
"An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things."
"In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life."
"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 writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters."
"He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger."
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