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De Bussy-Rabutin, Roger. Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules [Love history of the Gauls]. Cork: Editions à la Croix de Malte, 1665.

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De Chateaubriand, François-René. Les Natchez. c. 1826, preface.

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Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 3, ch. 15.

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Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 3, ch. 15.

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Proust, Marcel. Le Temps retrouvé [Time Regained]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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Proust, Marcel. Finding Time Again, edited and translated by Ian Patterson. Penguin Classics, 2023.

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Cocteau, Jean. Opium, Journal d'une Desintoxication [Opium: Diary of a Cure]. Librairie Stock, 1930.

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Diderot, Denis. Le Neveu de Rameau, ou La Satire seconde [The Nephew of Rameau, or the Second Satire]. 1805 (German); 1891 (original French manuscript).

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Diderot, Denis. "Rameau's Nephew." Rameau's Nephew and Other Works, translated by Jacques Barzun and Ralph H. Bowen. Hackett Publishing Company, 2001.

For where's the state beneath the firmament
That doth excel the bees for government?

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

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De Saluste du Bartas, Guillaume. La Semaine; ou Creation du monde [The First Week; or the Creation of the World]. Paris: Michel Gadoulleau and Jean Febvrier, 1578, first week, fifth day, pt. 1.

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Valery, Paul. Moralites. Librairie Gallimard, 1932.

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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.

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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.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass-which is better than trying to fill them.

Emil Cioran

The Trouble With Being Born

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Cioran, Emil. De I’inconvenient d’etre ne [The Trouble with Being Born]. Arcade Publishing, 1973, ch. 1.

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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.

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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.