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The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
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The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
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The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
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The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.
A Distant Mirror -
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
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The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
Lord of the Flies -
The thing with drama is you're allowed to invent people who are maybe slightly better than real people.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
Cosmos (1980) 221
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