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Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that country ought to do its duty.
International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples.
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West.
The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.
I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.
Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food.
One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication.
The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.
Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.
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