There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.
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Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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