Simone Schwarz-Bart (Simone Brumant) Quotes
It may well be that all suffering, even the prickles in the canefields, are part of the glory of man.
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I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
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Versace has always been a brand that I've loved, a brand that has supported me. I've been wearing Versace for so long, I come in here and I have friends here, and they really support what it is that I do. Our partnership has been great.
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By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.
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The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.
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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
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Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.
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Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.
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One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.
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It may well be that all suffering, even the prickles in the canefields, are part of the glory of man.
