Serge Gainsbourg Quotes
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
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We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.
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A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.
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Value everyone you know they might be gone tomorrow
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Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.
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It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.
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It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.
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The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.
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Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.
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Never give your sweetie all your heart, what heart will you have left in the end, and what would you do?
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He didn't look too good so we chose to err on the side of caution.
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It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.
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Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear.
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Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.
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Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay.
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Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
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One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.
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Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care.
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I am incapable of mediocrity.
