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“Certainly Brichot’s articles were far from being as remarkable as society people believed them to be. The vulgarity of the man was manifest”
― Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]
― Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]
“Yes, indeed, if some of these boys are a bit soft and chicken-hearted and hesitate, they shoot them immediately, a dozen bullets through the skin and that’s that. In a way it’s got to be done and what does it matter to the officers? They get their pesetas all the same and that’s all they care about.”
― Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]
― Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]
“In war, rational decisions are made for less than rational situations.”
― The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
― The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
“As it had been with Dreyfusism, so it was with the marriage of Saint-Loup and Odette’s daughter, a marriage people protested against at first. Now that people met everyone they knew at the Saint-Loups’, Gilberte might have had the morals of Odette herself, people would have gone there just the same and would have agreed with Gilberte in condemning undigested moral novelties like a dowager-duchess.”
― Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]
― Time Regained [In Search of Lost Time vol. 7]
“For the good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo: The City of God
― St. Augustine of Hippo: The City of God
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