"As for the bishop, the sight of..." - Quote by Victor Hugo
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
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“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.”
“It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.”
“The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.”
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“When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.”
“When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.”
“My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.”
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“Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)”
“I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.”
“Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality to it, but a joke is about surprising someone. I'm a great believer in context. You can joke about anything. I do like finding out where the line is drawn, deliberately crossing it and bringing some of them with me across the line, and having them be happy that I did.”