Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
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By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
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Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.
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The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe.
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