"In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue."

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Source : Speech fragment, 1794.

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

#Revolution Quotes #Dictator Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.”
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
“Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm.”
“Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and itâ€™s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.”
“I used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me.”
“The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.”
“What the world need is people who have come alive.”
“But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?”

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