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Burger's Daughter (1979)
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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It's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Among the group of people waiting at the fortress was a schoolgirl in a brown and yellow uniform holding a green eiderdown quilt and, by the loop at its neck, a red hot-water bottle.
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If you live in Europe... things change... but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.
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Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
November 20, 1923
Died:
July 13, 2014
(aged 90)
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