“Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.”
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
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