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Maurice Barrès Quotes

1862–1923 France

Auguste-Maurice Barrès (19 August 1862 – 4 December 1923) was a French novelist, journalist and politician.

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Random Maurice Barrès quote

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The individual is nothing, society is everything.

The reader collaborates with the author in every book.

Young men in meetings put in common nothing but their mediocrity.

Reality, it cannot be repeated too often, varies with every one of us.

A strange rage this modern mania to give a common manner to all minds and to destroy individuality.

What distinguishes an argument from a play upon words, is that the latter cannot be translated.

There is no reality for me but pure thought. Minds alone are interesting.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maurice Barrès (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.