"My father read GÃ¼nter Grass. He introduced me to German literature. I believe the first book I read by a German author was from Grass. After that, Thomas Mann accompanied me for a few years during my literature studies. I tried again and again to read the original German text, but I never really succeeded."

-- Emmanuel Macron

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“I've long believed that anybody who is in the act of remembering childhood is a poet, because you're thinking back on times when you were making false models of the universe. Everything is kind of irrational and poetic then.”

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“The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.”
“Anything that looks good makes you feel better.”
“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people donâ€™t talk anymore, they donâ€™t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.”
“Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.”

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“Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.”
“A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”
“You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.”

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