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What is the use of raping history, if you do not produce a child?

-Alexandre Dumas.

More quotes from MEN of letters plz.

>> No.1296397

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
-Mark Twain

>> No.1296405

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
-Virginia Woolf

>> No.1296431
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>>1296405
And this is exactly why naive females must be suppressed.

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>>1296405
>mfw one could remove "as a woman" from that and the sentiment would still be the same

>> No.1296444

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. "
--Ayn Rand

>> No.1296447

>>1296443
No Woolf was speaking from a time when men were still dumb enough to believe in nationalism.

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>>1296447
>No borders no masters you guise! Free love!

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>>1296449
>mfw Americans shouldn't be allowed on /lit/
but yeah, you go pretend i'm advocating German self-hate here.

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>>1296451
>implying I implied that
>implying you're not feeling self-conscious
>implying this doesn't show just how full of self-hatred you are

>> No.1296464

>>1296458
Implying implications

>> No.1296469

But guys, If Nation is a social/cultural construct (of constructs); how will we stop the wetbacks from getting in?

>> No.1296471

>>1296469
let them, they're good doctors.

>> No.1296500

>>1296447

>No Woolf was speaking from a time when men were still dumb enough to believe in something

fix'd

LONG LIVE LIBERALISM AND DO WHAT EVER THE FUCK YOU WANT I DONT GIVE A SHIT-ISM

>> No.1296502

>>1296469
so make it physical. but know this:
the more you entrench yourself the more you must remain on the defensive, so that in the end you might find yourself in a place fortified in every possible way, but the frequent result in this is that it draws attention to your weakest point, practically inviting your "enemy" there.

>> No.1296504

>>1296502

That's not Clausewitz or anything is it?

>> No.1296506

>>1296500
smoke yourself to death, randfag.

>>1296502
dat some art of war?

>> No.1296517

>>1296506
Not Art of War, or at least anything that I specifically remember of it as put in those terms.
>>1296504
It very may well be, I hadn't thought of him before. It is actually a passage from W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz, which I am currently reading.