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“Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.”
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“A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make citizens.”
― Candide
― Candide

“man was born to live either in a state of distracting inquietude or of lethargic disgust.”
― Candide
― Candide

“But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.'
'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.”
― Candide
'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.”
― Candide

“A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»”
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
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