You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls. " "It's not a fashion accessory.
Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille.
Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.
Burning is no answer.
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
As long as her hands can move a little bit and reach out to those who come to Her, Amma will continue giving darshan.
I had all these sparkles I'd collected and wanted to work in, but when I originally started writing it and it was originally this novel about all these people set in 1666, what I was so interested in was the New Science.
I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.