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For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

Bernard-Henri Levy

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
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Chains States Truth
Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!
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Country Look Political Radical Today
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
Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism’s favorite themes.
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Category Country Evil Fascism Metaphysical Thems Transformation
I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.
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Cosmopolitanism Interest Space Time
I don’t really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
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Believe Philosophy Warrior
The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
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Rebellious Revolution Successful
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
I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential “clash of civilizations.” I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.
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Civilization Ideas War
You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty.
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Evil Level Mean Neighborhood Political
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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Age Agree Ideas Solve United States
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 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
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
The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that’s like, when a government tells its people how it should look; what it should be doing. That’s the first step towards totalitarianism.
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Government Identity People
A politician has finally understood that politics is not only about the closing of a mine in Ohio-it is also about the will to reach out, to embrace the world of today’s young Americans. That way, young Americans may eventually reconcile with politics.
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Closing Country Embrace Politician Think Young

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