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"Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!"
Critique
"The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry."
Behavior
"Very well, young man, very well," Treville went on, "I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre."
Adventure
"In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs."
Religion
"God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers."
Faith
"The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all."
Politics
"And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!"
Drama
"True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring."
History
"Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure."
Behavior
"The kingdoms of kings are confined, either by mountains or rivers, or by a change in customs or by a difference of language; but my kingdom is as great as the world, because I am neither Italian, nor French, nor Hindu, nor American, nor a Spaniard; I am a cosmopolitan. No country can claim to be my birthplace, God alone knows in which region I shall die. I adopt every custom, I speak every tongue [... ] In this way, you see, being of no country, asking for the protection of no goverment and acknowledging no man as my brother, I am not restrained or hampered by a single one of the scruples that tie the hands of the powerful or the obstacles that block the path of the weak."
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"To get along with me, don't increase my tension."
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"There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it."
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Personal Development
"Her suspense was terrible."
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Personal Development
"He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous."
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Personal Development
"These groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after."
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"Tension means you want to be something else that you are not."
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