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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.


Auguste Rodin

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR Ni dieu ni maître!

(Neither God nor master)

[Feminist and labour slogan trans...
LOUIS-AUGUSTE BLANQUI Nothing is more dangerous then having just one idea
EMILE-AUGUSTE CHARTIER To think is to say no
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ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN Let me pass, I have to follow them, I am their leader.
ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
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CHARLES-AUGUSTE DE BERIOT Be commonplace and creeping, any you attain all things. [Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive ...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. [Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; ...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, n...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning them. [Fr., Il n'est pas necess...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS That which is not worth speaking they sing. [Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le ch...
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Everything ends with songs. [Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.]
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS What silly people wits are! [Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]
PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
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