You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

On croit mourir pour la patrie; on meurt pour les industriels.

Anatole France

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Anti-war Dying for one's country Patriotism War

Author

Anatole France

Source

L' Humanite

Medium

Newspaper

Language

French

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

France, Anatole. "Une Lettre D'Anatole France." L'Humanite, 18 July 1922.

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Why are women…so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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Original Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 2.

Current Citation

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Another quote about Patriotism

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

George Bernard Shaw

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Patriotism

Author

George Bernard Shaw
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Time
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Shaw, George Bernard. "Music in London." The World. London, 15 Nov. 1893.

Another quote originally in French

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
Modernist literature
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
French
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

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