Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

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