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The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

Bernard-Henri Levy

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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.
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Alternative Country United States
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
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.
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Brain Fighting Thinking
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
In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism.
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Country Perspective Religious Stop Terrorist Thinking
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

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