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Diary of an Innocent

by Tony Duvert

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“What labels me, negates me.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

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“My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! ”
― Marquis de Sade

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“Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations upon a void; I wondered if that increasing vacuity was due to the lowering of intelligence or to moral decline; whatever the cause, mediocrity of mind was matched almost everywhere by shocking selfishness and dishonesty.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

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