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“For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had been thrust upon it.”

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Book:Reflections on Violence
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Reflections on Violence

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Georges Sorel
Georges Sorel

Georges Sorel was a French philosopher born on November 2, 1847, and died on August 29, 1922. His philosophical ideas had a profound impact on later social and political theories. more

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