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Book cover for Le Manifeste des Plébéiens (La Petite Collection) (French Edition)
Nous avons posé33 que l’égalité parfaite est de droit primitif ; que le pacte social, loin de porter atteinte à ce droit naturel, ne doit que donner à chaque individu la garantie que ce droit ne sera jamais violé,
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Franz Kafka
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
Franz Kafka

Søren Kierkegaard
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Søren Kierkegaard

Oswald Spengler
“What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.”
Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Vol 2: Perspectives of World History

Emil M. Cioran
“The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.”
Emil Cioran

René Descartes
“La lecture de tous les bons livres est comme une conversation avec les plus honnêtes gens des siècles passés.”
René Descartes

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