"Germany is a machine for producing geniuses. Its crowning product was the German Jew which in suitably dramatic style it then tried to destroy."

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Michel Tournier

#Style Quotes #Germany Quotes #Genius Quotes

“However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.”
“You want a happy romantic relationship? Donâ€™t ruin it by getting married.”
“You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.”
“The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our own galaxy in dimension and in number of component units. [Stating his conviction on the nature of nebulae during the Shapley-Curtis debate on 26 Apr 1920 to the National Academy of Sciences.]”
“You know, after the film I said to myself, "It's a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I'd been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing.”
“I don't think anybody has the right to a huge family. There's already more people on the planet than our natural resources can even support, and if everybody were to have a high standard of living, we need three or four or five new planets to provide the resources. And this cannot be, so something has to change.”
“Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.”
“He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.”

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