Georges Brassens quotes
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“I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.”
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“Girls when it says "I love you" - it's like a second baptism - It gives them a whole new heart - As at the end of the egg.”
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“Ah, if only a few more massacres would suffice To sort it all out once and for all With so many uprisings and so many fallen heads In Paradise we should all be by now! But the wished-for Golden Age is endlessly postponed The gods remain so thirsty, they are insatiable Thus it is death, an endless cycle of death”
-- Georges Brassens
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“When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?”
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“The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed!”
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“If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.”
Source : "MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair" by Michael R. Beschloss, (p. 42), 1986.
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“Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.”
Source : "Fictional character: Blake". Glengarry Glen Ross, www.imdb.com. 1992.
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“The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.”
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