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I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues. I always decide to spend it with friends. It's very nice. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Day You Sometimes Sunday Nice Enjoy Spend Spending Fact Obsessed Because Always Friends Very Frightening Get Blues Decide Again Really Next Working Evenings

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Music Day Writing Listening Reading Spend Know Without Listen Century

I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as trapped as a slice of ham in a sandwich. When I was a student in Paris, I always rented attics right at the top of buildings, and as soon as I was making enough money, I bought houses. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Me People Money Trapped Living Other Enough Enough Money Slice Top Above Paris Student Bought Idea Feel Soon Like Make Houses Buildings Always Making Ham Apartments Sandwich Right

I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Consider Books Piano House Without

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering. Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Character Made More He Flattering

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying. Ernest Mandel

You Revolution Make Without Trying Cannot Really Socialist

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class. Ernest Mandel

Life You Class Draw Would Class Consciousness Only Day-To-Day Day-To-Day Life Call Trade Conclusion Trade Union Real Historical Movement Lenin Working Working-Class Union Large Elementary Consciousness

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. Ernest Mandel

Society Hundred Thousand Bourgeois Five Revolt Against Workers Millions

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible. Ernest Mandel

Day Every Day Impossible Power Live Every Strike Way Economy Makes Selling Labor Cannot To Live By Workers Capitalist Function

You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness. Ernest Mandel

You Class Dangerous Overcome Organization Vanguard Class Consciousness Brought About Potential Development Uneven Order Militancy Consciousness Need

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties. Ernest Mandel

Believe Parties

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time. Ernest Mandel

Time Class Political Real Going Process Social Working Working-Class Differentiation

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. Ernest Mandel

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument. Ernest Mandel

Party Revolution Like Instrument

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries. Ernest Mandel

Democracy Luxury Advanced Countries Most Industrial Limited Socialist Need

Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation. Ernest Mandel

World Build Society Otherwise Federation Masses Track Oppressed Off Historical Role Get Want Which Exploited Fulfil Help Socialist

I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it's launched, I don't intervene at all. Francis Alys

Game First Accidents Situation Action Intervene Once Collaborators Rules Seeing About Potential Inspired Tends Develop Clear How Am Context Very Done Different Interested Certain Acts

I have no problem twisting the facts if it's the only way I can be true to the moment. Francis Alys

Problem Be True Way Only No Problem Facts True Moment Twisting

In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics. Francois Englert

Physics Degree Understanding Engineering Structure Practical Underlying Learn Got However Than Decided Realised Interest Theoretical Less Applications

Fundamental research is needed to make progress, which you cannot do solely by copying others. If you only do applied research, you quickly lose creativity. Francois Englert

You Creativity Progress Lose Research Others Solely Only Make Quickly Cannot Which Fundamental Applied Copying Needed

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