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"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her."
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"The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."
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"I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances."
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