“I have survived or I existed or I lived”

— Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès

J'ai vécu.
After the Reign of Terror, when asked what he had done during that period; variously reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922), "Life", p. 453; "War", p. 857.

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French ''abbé'' ad statesman 1748–1836

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