writer Quotes
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Every man has two countries: his own and France.
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Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: 'you don’t have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality.'
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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
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We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.
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War then, is a relation – not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders.
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Our beloved ones have not ‘gone to a far country.’ It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
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A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can’t travel any way but sideways and backways.
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One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you’re the one.
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A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.