"The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."
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"As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of state."
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"In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur."
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"We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over."
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"Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another."
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"I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done."
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"I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean."
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"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."
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"Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance."
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"Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre."
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"The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs."
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"Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage."
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"Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics."
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"Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You dont even love chocolate. Chocolate is something you have an affair with."
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"One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one."
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"Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs."
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"If names are not correct, then language is not in accord with the truth of things. If language is not in accord with the truth of things, then affairs cannot be carried out successfully."
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"We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen."
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"For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern."
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"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."
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