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Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.
Albert Memmi
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We are not indeed obliged always to speak what we think, but we must always think what we speak.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert
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Yet this is the watch by night.
Let us all accept new strength, and
real tenderness. And at dawn, armed
with glowing patience, we will enter
the cities of glory.
Arthur Rimbaud
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One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.
Jean Anouilh
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The politician is an acrobat; he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.
Maurice Barrès
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When one knows the tremendous strength of their roots, and the arid fraternity among them, their conventional exotic image fades away.... In this place of acceptance and denial, this line of trees contains the essentials of wisdom: it teaches moderation and at the same time inspires audacity.
Édouard Glissant
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What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors.
Henry Becque
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Take love as a sober man takes wine; do not become a drunkard. If your mistress is sincere and faithful, love her for that; but if she is not, if she is merely young and beautiful, love her for that; if she is agreeable and spirituelle, love her for that; if she is none of these things but merely loves you, love her for that. Love does not come to us every day.
Alfred de Musset
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They flattered the ambitious and all the ills came gradually to a head. Murder drowning everything was allowed. Intriguers monopolised all the offices. Good men could only mutter for if they spoke they were lost. Hatred vengeance everything was permitted and nobody dared open his mouth...
Jacques-Louis Ménétra
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The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.
Romain Rolland
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Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.
Jacques Rigaut
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Followers of trails and of seasons, breakers of camp in the little dawn wind, seekers of watercourses over the wrinkled rind of the world, o seekers, o finders of reasons to be up and be gone....
Saint-John Perse
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There is no power in nature which from nothing could have made the universe, and none which could reduce the universe to nothing:
Maurice Renard
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Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.
Amanda Filipacchi
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Ingratitude calls forth reproaches as gratitude brings renewed kindnesses.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
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Naught else but empty shadows are our dreams,
Reflected from the day's imaginings.
Giovanni Rucellai
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Segu is a garden where cunning grows. Segu is built on treachery. Speak of Segu outside Segu, but do not speak of Segu in Segu.
Maryse Condé
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If they do only one jump, you know, there's a fifty percent chance of an injury. Two jumps it's eighty percent. The third time, it's dead certain they won't get off Scot free. You see? It's not a question of training, but the law of averages.
Pierre Boulle
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How can a man who has once strayed into Heaven ever hope to make terms with the earth!
Alain-Fournier
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He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.
Irène Némirovsky
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In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
Georges Duhamel
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Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.
Daniel Guérin
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The good effect of Fortune may be short-lived. To build on it is to build on sand.
Honorat de Bueil de Racan
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In this world, you must be a bit too kind in order to be kind enough.
Pierre de Marivaux
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Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my goal differs so from yours that I would be wasting my time in trying to explain where my inclination drives me.
Dominique Fernandez
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