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• I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,…
• The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at…
• Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end…
• Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
• Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed…
• An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
• To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause…
• I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,…

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