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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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Alain Resnais
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