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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#carrying #dead #france #heard #how

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#chance #dies #every #existing #itself

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#detail #distinguish #longer #told #victory

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#another #because #community #involve #longer

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#ends #endured #evil #i #i believe

For better or worse, she was the lady Soraya. And the lady Soraya would never dream of missing the warm bulk of Casia's body between her and the hearth, or the comforting drone of Ludo's snores. Or the wry laughter of a slave... a slave, for Azura's sake! The lady Soraya needed no one. The lady Soraya cried herself to sleep. ↗

— Hilari Bell

#loneliness #soraya #dreams

There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.' ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#coming #hmm #i #into #many

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#existed #i #long #may #member

I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold. ↗

— Billy Joe Saunders

#experienced #gold #i #know #london

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. ↗