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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad. Josephine Baker

Me Walk Coffee Made Presidents Mad Kings More Could Hotel Houses Queens Cup Walked America Get Much Palaces

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. Jules Verne

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women. Louis XIV

Funny Women Reconcile Could Sooner Than Europe Two

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. Madame de Stael

Life Suffering Must Boredom Between Choose

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. Marguerite Duras

Music Man Woman Book Human Being Illusion Power Creation Painting Alcohol Other Give Poem Real Replace Human Being

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. Marguerite Duras

God Man Master Own Alcohol On The Contrary Destiny Console Folly He Supreme Him Comfort His Encourages Up Contrary Lack Where Anyone Psychological Regions Transports Gaps Fill

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. Marie Antoinette

Alone Me You Queen Mother Wife Husband Long Took Crown Remains Take Make Blood Children Deprived Suffer Away

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. Marie Antoinette

Nothing Has-Been Except New Been Forgotten Nothing New

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity. Marquis de Lafayette

Good Humanity Tied America Closely Fortune Good Fortune

The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages. Marquis de Lafayette

Me Despot Courts Friends Forests Iroquois Europe Savages

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain. Marquis de Sade

Liberty Expense Order Social Bargain Social Order Hardly

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. Maximilien Robespierre

Man Rights Law Unjust Tyrannical Any Essentially Which Inalienable Violates

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. Maximilien Robespierre

Humanity Cruelty Punish Clemency Oppressors Forgive Them

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. Michel de Montaigne

Conversation Everybody Boring More Than Where Agree

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. Michel de Montaigne

Education Because Educated Been Prefer Reason Company Sufficiently Peasants Incorrectly

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. Moliere

Control Kings Knows How Grammar Which Even

We die only once, and for such a long time. Moliere

Death Time Long Long Time Once Only Die Such A Long Time

Respect the burden. Napoleon Bonaparte

Respect Burden

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. Napoleon Bonaparte

Power Prevent Never Forbid Lacks Should

War is the business of barbarians. Napoleon Bonaparte

War Business Barbarians

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolution Bayonets Idea Which Found

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