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"It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk."
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
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"This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always been our dearest hope. Your too sudden passion is made up of spite and necessity."
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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
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"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."
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"They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about,but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy it or repaint it. We want to be the masters of the future only for the power to change the past. We fight for access to the labs where we can retouch photos and rewrite biographies and history."
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"What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!"
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"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."
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"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."
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"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
Art
"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
Art
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
Man
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
Knowledge
"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all."
Conversation
"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
Art
"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
Communication
"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."
Science
"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
Man
"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."
Life
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