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Every Generation Needs a New Revolution - Author object (99)

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. - Author object (99)

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God. - Author object (99)

The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. - Author object (99)

Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do. - Author object (226)

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange. - Author object (327)

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. - Author object (327)

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. - Author object (327)

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. - Author object (327)

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace. - Author object (327)

Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman). - Author object (327)

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave. - Author object (327)

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. - Author object (327)

for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. - Author object (327)

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. - Author object (327)

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. - Author object (327)

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express. - Author object (327)

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. - Author object (327)

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal. - Author object (327)

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others. - Author object (327)