Alphonse Daudet famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.
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There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.
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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
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My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander.
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Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.
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The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation...
-- Alphonse Daudet
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As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.
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Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions
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There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.
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Hatred doesn't just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred
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We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.
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Weak people never admit that they are responsible for their own state. They always blame either circumstances or others.
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You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
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The Stalker seems to be weak, but essentially it is he who is invincible because of his faith and his will to serve others.
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