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"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro."
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"I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair."

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"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."

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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."

"Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self."

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"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."

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"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines."

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
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