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"The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness."
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"Begin to see the violence around you, begin to see the violence within you."
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"Was there ever a war where only one side bled?"
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"He kills her in her own humor."
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"Do you know what I think?" Marcone said."You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.""Yes."I drew my gun. "Okay."
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"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do."
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"As one of the motorbikes came towards me, I let a big heavy right go, and knocked the rider's head clean off his shoulders! Fucking hell, the guy's head was still in his helmet and it was clattering all the way down the road."
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"I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)"
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"To protect one's own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself."
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"There was nothing - and nothing - and then the car bumped up again. There was a muffled pop, the sound of a small pumpkin exploding in a microwave oven.Morris cut the wheel to the left and there was another bump as the Biscayne went back into the parking area. He looked in the mirror and saw that Curtis's head was gone."
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"We are all a part of a culture of violence that dominates every aspect of our lives."
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"I rebel, therefore I exist."
Identity
"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
Diplomacy
"To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."
Art
"There is do much sttuborn hope in a human heart."
Hope
"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
Life
"...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I've seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn't want to be helped, and I hadn't time to work up interest for something that didn't interest me."
Belief
"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books."
Education
"At the beginning of a pestilence and when it ends, there's always a propensity for rhetoric. In the first case, habits have not yet been lost; in the second, they're returning. It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence."
History
"The cats sleep for days at a time and make love from the first star until dawn. Their pleasures are fierce, and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part."
Nature
"To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love."
Wisdom
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