men only wanted one thing, and once they’d got it, they quickly lost interest.
“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.”
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“I’m on bridge, bridge is on water, bridge-bridge cancel, I’m on water.”
― Our Moon Has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir
― Our Moon Has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir
“What you believe you deserve is what you get in life. Change your beliefs and your life transforms.”
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“You tell me that class distinctions are baubles used by monarchs, I defy you to show me a republic, ancient or modern, in which distinctions have not existed. You call these medals and ribbons baubles; well, it is with such baubles that men are led. I would not say this in public, but in a assembly of wise statesmen it should be said. I don't think that the French love liberty and equality: the French are not changed by ten years of revolution: they are what the Gauls were, fierce and fickle. They have one feeling: honour. We must nourish that feeling. The people clamour for distinction. See how the crowd is awed by the medals and orders worn by foreign diplomats. We must recreate these distinctions. There has been too much tearing down; we must rebuild. A government exists, yes and power, but the nation itself - what is it? Scattered grains of sand.”
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