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• Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
• Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
• True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.
• The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait…
• When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to…
• Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
• One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
• A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
• It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the…
• Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which…
• The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
• All confessions are Odysseys.

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