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"I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory."
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"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny."
"It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day " or as he sleeps " simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere " us " I know I have a chance."
"And without forgiveness, there is never any peace."
"The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. .."
"The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she's right."
"Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos."
"Tranquility is not weakness, from tranquility emerges power and strength."
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"I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent."
"France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her."
"It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man."
"It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal."
"Workers of France, it is for the freedom of the prisoners that you will go to work in Germany! It is for our country that you will go in large numbers!"
"I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now."
"In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war."
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