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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Museums have today become the new churches.

Christian Boltanski

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Boltanski, Christian. Interview with Tamar Garb. Christian Boltanski. Phaidon Press, 1997, p. 11.

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

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Marquis de Custine. La Russie en 1839 [Russia in 1839]. Vol. 4, Bruxelles: Societe Belge de Librarie, 1843.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Henri Bergson

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Bergson, Henri. L'Évolution créatrice [Creative Evolution]. 1907.

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Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution. Dover Publications, 1998.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Jean Genet

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Genet, Jean. Un Captif Amoureux [Prisoner of Love]. Paris: Gallimard, 1986.

Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism.

Georges Bernanos

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Bernanos, Georges. Nous Autres Francais. Gallimard, 1939.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

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Duhamel, Georges. Le Desert de Bievre [The Desert of Bièvres]. Mercure de France, 1937, ch. 2.

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Schweitzer, Albert. Zwischen Wasser un Unwald [On the Edge of the Primeval Forest]. A. and C. Black, 1922, ch. 11.

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Schweitzer. "On the Edge of the Primeval Forest." The Primeval Forest. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

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Mallarme, Stephane. Letter to Leo d'Orfer. 27 June 1884.

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Mallarme, Stephane. Selected Letters of Stéphane Mallarmé. University of Chicago Press, 1988.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Jean Cocteau

Barabbas was the criminal released by Pontius Pilate , at the crowd's insistence, instead of Jesus.

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Cocteau, Jean. Le Coq et l'Arlequin [The Cock and the Harlequin]. Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1918.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet

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Dimnet, Ernest. What We Live By. Simon & Schuster, 1932, pt. 2, ch. 12.

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Anouilh, Jean. L'Aloutte [The Lark]. Paris: La Table Ronde, 1953.

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Anouilh, Jean. "The Lark." Anouilh Plays: One: Antigone, Léocadia, The Waltz of the Toreadors, The Lark, and Poor Bitos. Methuen Drama, 1987.

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Bloy, Leon. L'ame de Napoleon [The Soul of Napoleon]. 1912, introduction.

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Poincare, Henri. Science et methode [Science and Method]. Flammarion, 1914, bk. 1, ch. 3.

In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.

Guy Debord

The Society of the Spectacle

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Debord, Guy. La societe du spectacle [The Society of the Spectacle]. Buchet-Chastel, 1967, ch. 1, sect. 1.

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Briffault, Robert. The Making of Humanity. London: G. Allen & Unwin Limited.

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Briffault, Robert. Rational Evolution (The Making of Humanity). Routledge, 2019, ch. 15.

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Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Vol. 2, Bruxelles: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1862, bk. 5, ch. 10.

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Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Wordsworth Editions, 1994, pt. 2, bk. 5, ch. 10.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "Que Philosopher C'Est Apprendre a Mourir [That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Voltaire. L'ingenu. 1767, ch. 10.

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Voltaire. "Ingenuous." Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories, translated by Daniel A. Frame. Signet, 2009, ch. 10.