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“L'humanité souleva sa robe et me montra, comme à un adepte digne d'elle, sa monstrueuse nudité.”
― Alfred de Musset, Lorenzaccio

“Ces tyrans détrônés devenus mes esclaves.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

“Your orders are charming; your manner of giving them still more delightful; you would make tyranny itself adored.”
― Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses

“When the twins asked what cuff-links were for—“To link cuffs together,” Ammu told them—they were thrilled by this morsel of logic in what had so far seemed an illogical language. Cuff+link = cuff-link. This, to them, rivaled the precision of logic and mathematics. Cuff-links gave them an inordinate (if exaggerated) satisfaction, and a real affection for the English language.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things