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"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man."
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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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"A court that wouldn't just change the world. It would start the world over."
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"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution."
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