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“You are not dead nor alive. Each new morning you take your way between the crowd, but you never wonder where that creature who carried a lamp Throughout the night to illuminate the road evaporates.”

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“Why, whenever the morning broke and the sun extended its arms between the dirty alleys of the suburbs, you were that obnoxious face and you played the role of a poisonous bullet penetrating the eyes of persons who usually await you in the streets of the city? where did that soft petal which you had guarded between your palms Throughout the night hide? How did you become a desolate forest encircled by woodsmen from every direction? Why did your whispers which you had sent slowly to remove the braids of your sweetheart's hair tuft by tuft turn into an annoying scream?”

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“No one knew that fangs you showed in a gloomy way to snatch a loaf of bread from the jaws of crocodiles and to lick a drop of water from springs guarded by snakes were before a few hours anything but a faint light creeping from between your lips into darkness. No one knew how you spent your night removing shards of glass stuck in your feet after a piece fell from the mirror of your dreams and shattered on the asphalt without your attention...”

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“Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late”

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“It was only then that Major John James realized that he was quite alone—whereupon he pulled the oldest trick in the book. Spurring Thunder on, he shouted, “Come on, boys! Come on! Here they are! Here they are!”28 The now thoroughly demoralized Tories leaped onto their horses and fled again, their leader joining them.”

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