Quotes by Alain Finkielkraut

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Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.
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Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere.
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Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.
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Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere
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Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.
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Qu'est-ce-que faire l'amour ? c'est languir après le tout proche, comme si une fois levés tout les obstacles, , dans le contact des peaux, et l'entralacement des epidermes, l'Autre refusait encore de se laisser prendre.
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Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.
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On peut faire la grève tout, sauf d’être.