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"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."
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"We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin."
"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."
"Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever."
"I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success."
"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."
"Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten."
"In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet."
"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
"Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future."
"Anon from the castle wallsThe crescent banner falls,And the crowd beholds instead,Like a portent in the sky,Iskander's banner fly,The Black Eagle with double head;And a shout ascends on high,For men's souls are tired of the Turks,And their wicked ways and works,That have made of Ak-HissarA city of the plague;And the loud, exultant cryThat echoes wide and farIs: "Long live Scanderbeg!"
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"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable."
"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
"If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."
"A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas."
"This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."
"Who has been unhooking the stars without my permission, and putting them on the table in the guise of candles?"
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