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Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales. ↗

— David Remnick

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You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. ↗

— David Remnick

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Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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Man makes holy what he believes. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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