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“Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.”
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“Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions
“Colonialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natural resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
― The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
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