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The Baron in the Trees (1957)
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He was carried away by that mania of the storyteller, who never knows which stories are more beautiful—the ones that really happened and the evocation of which recalls a whole flow of hours past, of petty emotions, boredom, happiness, insecurity, vanity, and self-disgust, or those which are invented, and in which he cuts out a main pattern, and everything seems easy, then begins to vary it as he realizes more and more that he is describing again things that had happened or been understood in lived reality.
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Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.
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The gaze of dogs who don't understand and who don't know that they may be right not to understand.
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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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Born:
October 15, 1923
Died:
September 19, 1985
(aged 61)
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