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Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!

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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Book School Writing
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
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 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
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
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
The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
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Chains States Truth
Even Colombia – where the dead have no faces and literally cannot be counted. Theirs are minuscule lives moving toward imperceptible deaths. For me, it is the essence of tragedy.
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Country Dead Essence Imperfectible Moving Tragedy
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 would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States – even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.
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Long Strong Thinking
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
There is a true weakness in American thought today: their incapacity to be interested in the intelligence of evil.
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Evil Today Weakness
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
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
The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
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Rebellious Revolution Successful

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