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Fascinating excursion through twenty centuries of Paris history, following a course of Metro stops. The author, a French comedian, is an engaging storyteller who knows his subject well. Map insets helpfully aid the reader to identify dozens of points
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“Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it”
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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“As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.”
― Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala
― Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala
“The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.”
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“Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.”
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