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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."
"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."
"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."
"In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime."
"Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all."
"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
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