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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”.

Bernard-Henri Levy

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Schizophrenia

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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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I don’t really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Warrior
The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
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Rebellious Successful
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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Political Radical Today
In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism.
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Religious Terrorist
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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Shameful
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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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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Invisible
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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Mean Neighborhood Political
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”.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

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 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.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Each Funeralmpalestian Moving
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.

BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

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.
BERNARD-HENRI LEVY
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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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
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Vacation
There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.

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There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
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Today
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 Solved Terrorist

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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