Source: Margarettown
Paul Valéry (1871–1945) French poet, essayist, and philosopher
La guerre, c'est un massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent, mais ne se massacrent pas.
Bizarre, issues 24-31 (1962), p. 102
This apocryphal quote from Paul Valéry is never precisely sourced: neither on the internet nor in the works we have consulted. See: https://www.guichetdusavoir.org/question/voir/52650
“Let’s always love each other, and never be in love with each other.”
David Levithan book Every You, Every Me
Source: Every You, Every Me
Assata Shakur (1947) American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army
To My People (July 4, 1973)
Source: Assata: An Autobiography
“What happens to people that love each other?”
Ernest Hemingway book Across the River and into the Trees
'I suppose they have whatever they have and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness for ever.'
Colonel Richard Cantwell and Renata in Ch. 38
Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist
Quoted by Bengt Danielsson in Gauguin in the South Seas http://books.google.com/books?id=u41CAAAAIAAJ&q=%22In+Europe+men+and+women+have+intercourse+because+they+love+each+other+In+the+South+Seas+they+love+each+other+because+they+have+had+intercourse+Who+is+right%22&pg=PA137#v=onepage (1966) <br class="br">undated
John Hirst (1942–2016) Australian historian
The Australians: Insiders and Outsiders on the National Character since 1770 (2007)
