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The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.

In the first place, the word universal conceals a gross sophism.

Your doctrine is only the half of my program; you have stopped at liberty, I go on to fraternity." I answered him: "The second part of your program will destroy the first." And in fact it is impossible for me to separate the word fraternity from the word voluntary.

The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it is to generalize plunder under pretense of organizing it.

And now, after having vainly inflicted upon the social body so many systems, let them end where they ought to have begun—reject all systems, and make trial of liberty—of liberty, which is an act of faith in God and in His work.

the public has two hopes, and Government makes two promises—many benefits and no taxes. Hopes and promises that, being contradictory, can never be realized.

The problem is, not to find whether the picture is mournful, but whether it is true. And for that we have the testimony of history.

Existence, faculties, assimilation—in other words, personality, liberty, property—this is man.

What needs explanation is not poverty, which is the natural state of mankind, but wealth.

Tuturor criticilor pe care i-am dezam?git, a? vrea s? le spun, o dat? pentru totdeauna, c? sunt de acord cu ei. ?i mie mi-ar pl?cea s? scriu c?r?i mai bune.

Non, Céline n'est pas une marque de chaussures. C'est un écrivain français. Le héros de son plus célèbre roman s'appelle Bardamu et il fait le tour de la planète à la recherche d'un coupable. Il traverse la guerre, la misère, la maladie, il va en Afrique, en Amérique, et il ne trouve jamais le responsable de notre désolation. Le livre est sorti en 1932 et cinq ans plus tard, Céline se trouvait un bouc émissaire : les juifs.

Én... Nem... Nem gondoltam, hogy... (Hirtelen olyan ékesszóló lettem, mint Patrick Modiano.)

Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

cambered forehead of a virgin and who had eyes

Suspense is simply the dramatization of a film's narrative, or if you will, the most intense presentation possible of dramatic situations.

There's no good speech save in Paris.

The Sephiroth, as defined by G. Scholem, are 'the ten names most common to God and in their entirety they form his one great Name'.

Dream Song of Thunders: Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches...

It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.

He had been enjoying his explanation, and now she had spoiled things by knowing too much.

The only sane option was to retreat back out into the corridor. Fortunately sanity had never really slowed Neverfell down.

Uncle Miles was napping in his seat, blithely and easily as a puppy on a rug.