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• The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to…
• I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
• Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in…
• When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes…
• Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
• What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
• We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game…
• There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as…
• Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues.
• The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers…
• I decided to be what crime made of me,
• What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep…

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