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"It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"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."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"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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"There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is."
World
"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
Control
"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
Exploration
"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
Literature
"Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought."
Society
"Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts."
Thought
"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."
Power
"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."
Life
"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."
Content
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
Being
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