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When the judge calls the

When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
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Anyone who knows a strange

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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The fame of heroes owes

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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What I did not yet

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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Power may be at the

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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The main object of a

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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Excluded by my birth and

Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.
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Perhaps all music, even the

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
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We know that their adventures

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.
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Crimes of which a people

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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