Etta James
Singer
"I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be."
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Bourgeois
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Jules Renard
Writer
"The bourgeois are other people."
Jules Renard
Writer
"To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois."
Susan Sontag
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois."
Gustave Flaubert
Novelist
"Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom."
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"French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable."
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