Quotes 401 till 420 of 559.
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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
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The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.
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The look of a king is itself a deed.
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The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.
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The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
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The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
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The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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