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I definitely don’t agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States – this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

Bernard-Henri Levy

The terrorists exist, and I think we must speak to them, not to establish a dialogue-since for serious terrorists that is unfortunately out of the question – but to learn how their brains work, to be better able to fight them.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Brain Fighting Thinking
I work even when I am on vacation. You know that line by Stéphane Mallarmé, “All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book”? I am the kind of person who finds life interesting only if it is translated into writing, if it is parsed into words.
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Book Vacation Writing
Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies – “the lives”.
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Intellectual Men Schizophrenia
Each time a Palestinian or an Israeli dies, it is terrible. But they have the right to have a funeral, to be buried, to have a place in the memory of the survivors. And then you have these other places – Darfur, Rwanda.
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Each Funeralmpalestian Memories Moving Time
Even if the Israel-Palestine question were solved – and I think and hope that one day soon it will be – this wouldn’t stop one person from becoming a terrorist.
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Hoe One Palestine Person Question Solved Terrorist
The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
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Rebellious Revolution Successful
Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history – we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.
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Book School Writing
In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism.
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Country Perspective Religious Stop Terrorist Thinking
For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.
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Order Principles Rotten
I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama’s strength.
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International Loyal Politician Rare World
America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it – – not always, but sometimes – for constructive purposes.
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Country Energy Purpose
France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.
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Country Invisible Suppose Thinking
The euro is a great achievement. It’s a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.
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Achievement Constitution Opportunity
It’s true that in France there is always this ridiculous complex about money. Money is cursed, shameful, money disqualifies you . . . In America, even though it is a Protestant country, it’s the opposite.
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Complex Country Ridiculous Shameful True
God is dead but my hair is perfect.
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Dead God Hair Perfect
Even if it doesn’t sound like it at first, that’s an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role.
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Country Identity Sound

I definitely don’t agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States – this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

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