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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."
"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
Explore more quotes by Maximilien Robespierre
"Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil."
"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all."
"Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves."
"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular."
"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."
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