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Therese 2022-10-14 00:37:05
A farewell to the life of an old intellectual
An old intellectual who had a romantic life and suffered from a serious illness in his later years. A family that has long been torn apart. in the last period of life. Old people walked with their children, ex-wives, lovers, friends. The lost family was awakened little by little, and finally...
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Adam 2022-10-10 11:05:25
Embrace and Strength
In the face of death, it seems to have abandoned all sorrows and crux of the matter. On the final road, giving care and strength, giving warmth and embrace, is far more powerful than disinfectant, needle and ventilator. How to give dignity to the greatest extent is the greatest encouragement to...
Sébastien Ricard
The Barbarian Invasions quotes
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Rémy: [in French] Contrary to belief, the 20th century wasn't that bloody. It's agreed that wars caused 100 million deaths. Add 10 million for the Russian gulags. The Chinese camps, we'll never know, but say 20 million. So 130, 145 million dead. Not all that impressive. In the 16th century, the Spanish and Portuguese managed, without gas chambers or bombs, to slaughter 150 million Indians in Latin America. With axes! That's a lot of work, sister. Even if they had church support, it was an achievement. So much so tha the Dutch, English, French, and later Americans followed their lead and butchered another 50 million. 200 million dead in all! The greatest massacre in history took place right here. And not the tiniest holocaust museum. The history of mankind is a history of horrors.
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Rémy: We've been everything: separatists, supporters of independantists, sovereignists, sovereignity-associanists...
Pierre: At first, we were existentialists.
Dominique: We read Sartre and Camus.
Claude: Then Fanon, we became anti-colonialists.
Rémy: We read Marcuse and became Marxists.
Pierre: Marxist-Leninists.
Alessandro: Trotskyists.
Diane: Maoists.
Rémy: After Solzhenitsyn we changed, we became structuralists.
Pierre: Situationists.
Dominique: Feminists.
Claude: Deconstructionists.
Pierre: Is there an -ism we haven't worshipped?
Claude: Cretinism.
