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Against Nature's silence I use action
In the vast indifference I invent a meaning
I don't watch unmoved I intervene
and say that this and this are wrong
and I work to alter them and improve them
The important thing
is to pull yourself up by your own hair
to turn yourself inside out
and see the whole world with fresh eyes

— Peter Weiss Marat/Sade (1963)

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I've twisted and turned them every way,
And can see no ending to our play.

Marat/Sade (1963)

Only in his poetry did he have the courage to love.

Fight on land and sea
All men want to be free
If they don't
never mind
we'll abolish all mankind

Marat/Sade (1963)

In Dante the hero would rather flee
and renounce the tempting embrace
instead of yielding to his desires
and enduring the attendant dangers.

We can say what we like without favour or fear
and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear

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