Chance will always rule history, because it is not possible to organize the state in such a way that it does not matter who rules. - NGD
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National histories have all finally flowed into a degenerate occidentalism. - NGD, anticipating Twitter
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The history of man is not the catalog of his situations, but the account of his unpredictable ways of using them. - NGD
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Man’s freedom does not free him from necessity. But twists it into unforeseeable consequences. - NGD
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Our contemporaries denigrate the past so that they do not commit suicide out of shame and nostalgia. - NGD
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The succession of generations is the vehicle, but not the motor of history. - NGD
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In history it is wise to hope for miracles and absurd to trust in plans. - NGD
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Everything rolls toward death, but only what lacks value rolls toward nothingness. - NGD
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Values are not citizens of this world, but pilgrims from other heavens. - NGD
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History owes its importance to the values that emerge there, not to the masses of men who are shipwrecked there. - NGD
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We should not be frightened: what we admire does not die. Nor be delighted: neither does what we detest. - NGD
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The reader will not find aphorisms in these pages. My brief sentences are the dots of color in a pointillist painting. - NGD
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What I say here will seem trivial to whoever does not know everything to which I allude. - NGD
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Allusion is the only way to express what is intimate without distorting it. - NGD
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Certain ideas are only clear when formulated, but others are only clear when alluded to. - NGD
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The writer who does not insist on convincing us wastes less of our time, and sometimes even convinces us. - NGD
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A simple comma at times distinguishes a trivial remark from an idea. - NGD
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A man does not communicate with another man except when the one writes in his solitude and the other reads him in his own. - NGD
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In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has been thrust into us up to the hilt. - NGD
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