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520. The Americans.
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524. The Russians.
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532. But they're not really so powerful.
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537. Then there are the others,
the on-lookers,
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people like...
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540. Or the English.
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542. Yes, Vietnam.
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546. The NLF will win.
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in Ta Kien province
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10 of the 300 puppet soldiers.
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Communism in Vietnam.
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two kinds of Communism,
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he's not fighting it at all.
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555. On the contrary,
he signs agreements with Moscow.
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556. He invites Hungarian swimmers
to Los Angeles.
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in Romania, in Poland,
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the factories in Hanoi.
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561. Help, help, help.
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562. Help, Mr Kosygin, help.
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567. and one he holds out his hand to.
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570. Because it has changed.
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572. They're an imperialist power.
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573. Since they haven't changed,
then it's the others who've changed.
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574. The Russians and their friends
have become revisionists
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576. While the real Communists
that haven't changed
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582. I'm for peace in Vietnam.
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in China.
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585. As for Vietnam...
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587. Help, Mr Kosygin!
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588. Hurry, Mr Kosygin!
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595. We other...
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598. unjust... wars.
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599. But we aren't... against...
progressive wars.
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600. Friends, comrades.
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602. An important question.
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603. Indeed, if a socialist might admire
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in the relative world context...
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605. and at that level understand it,
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606. using rareness and exploitation
as criteria.
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607. Rareness, exploitation.
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608. Protesting the structures
that feed it.
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609. Structures.
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610. Otherwise socialism falls
into the right-wing trap...
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611. Trap.
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of Capitalistic abundance,
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Mr Michel Debré.
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620. A fighting truth.
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621. A fighting truth.
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the Russian academies,
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627. Revolutionaries.
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628. Today some schools
for human sciences
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629. are retracing the road to Marxism,
but backwards.
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630. Not to show flaws in society,
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632. to show how men's will and projects
cannot change.
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633. Structure, change.
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634. In short, man is an idea
of modern thinkers
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636. This situation
in the human sciences
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by his genius...
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638. this situation is disturbing...
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639. Disturbing.
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640. It's the image
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641. of the impotence of Europe's left.
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642. That impotence
indicates its decline.
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643. We're a bit like Robinson.
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644. Remember Engel's text on Robinson?
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645. In what?
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646. In Anti-Duhring.
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647. Guillaume, answer the phone!
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648. What surprises me
are your quarrels with the Party.
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649. After a while I discovered
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650. three quarters of the ideas
and analyses
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652. for intellectuals.
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653. Too close to Moscow.
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654. Look. Nizan is dead,
Merleau is dead.
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Aragon in maths.
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657. Right, but it's tragic also.
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658. It's the Party's fault?
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659. Yes, exactly.
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660. That's why we must seek our ideal
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661. 1,000 km away in Peking.
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662. No matter what his position,
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663. no Communist
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666. The Cultural Revolution
isn't an argument.
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667. First it's historical fact,
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668. an historical fact
unlike any other.
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669. Then there's this.
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670. Exporting cultural revolt
is impossible,
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672. But the theoretical lessons
belong to all Communists.
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673. They must borrow the lessons
and make them their own.
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674. Guillaume, answer the phone!
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675. I'm Veronique Supervielle.
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676. I'm 19 years, eight months,
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677. 14 hours, two minutes,
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678. Vietnam burns
and me I spurn Mao Mao
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679. Johnson giggles
and me I wiggle Mao Mao
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680. Napalm runs and me I gun Mao Mao
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681. Cities die and me I cry Mao Mao
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682. Whores cry and me I sigh Mao Mao
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683. The rice is mad and me a cad
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684. It's the Little Red Book
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685. That makes it all move
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686. Imperialism lays down the law
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687. Revolution is not a party
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688. The A-bomb is a paper tiger
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689. The masses are the real heroes
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690. The Yanks kill and me I read Mao Mao
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691. The jester is king
and me I sing Mao Mao
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692. The bombs go off
and me I scoff Mao Mao
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693. Girls run and me I follow Mao Mao
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694. The Russians eat
and me I dance Mao Mao
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695. I denounce and I renounce Mao Mao
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696. It's the Little Red Book
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697. That makes it all move.
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698. And now El Cordobes.
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699. Paco Camino.
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700. Why did he ditch our bull's head?
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701. We can't have any more fun.
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702. He's mad and going to commit suicide.
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703. - Hurry up, Fernand.
- Coming...
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705. Great racing handlebars and a seat.
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- Yes.
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708. No, that worker's a genius.
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709. With a bull's head he made
handlebars and a seat.
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713. And death...
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725. in the poorest
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728. All those fighting
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735. of Brest-Litovsk.
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736. Art doesn't reproduce the visible.
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737. It makes visible.
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is imaginary.
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739. Yes, but the imaginary
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743. The three primary colours,
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744. blue, yellow and red.
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745. Perfectly pure
and perfectly balanced,
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746. on the pretext that
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750. of the object seen
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752. Perhaps reality
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766. Fighting on two fronts...
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767. I find too complicated.
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769. I don't understand how you can
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771. Two fronts.
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772. Too complicated.
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774. Of course I do.
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775. I've decided
I don't love you anymore.
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776. What's going on?
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777. I no longer like your face,
eyes, mouth.
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778. Nor your sweaters.
And you bore me terribly.
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779. What's happening?
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780. I don't love you.
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781. I don't understand.
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782. You will.
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783. Veronique.
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784. You will.
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785. Explain why you're saying that.
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786. I no longer love you.
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787. You interfere.
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788. You worry me.
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789. Love's too difficult with you.
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790. I hate how you discuss
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792. I don't love you.
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794. Yeah, I do.
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797. You see, you can do
two things at once.
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798. To understand you had to do it.
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799. Music and language.
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802. Me too, I'm often scared.
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have bad work habits,
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804. the antithesis
of the Marxist spirit.
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805. Like catching birds blindfolded.
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807. I'm not a strange animal.
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808. I'm a human being.
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809. And your look
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810. is the same as Whites in America
looking at Blacks
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811. or Arabs looking at Jews,
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812. or vice versa in the Middle East.
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Russians
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819. Not Novalis.
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820. But it was voted yesterday.
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821. But he's a scholar, not a poet.
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822. A scholar on poetry
like Brecht on theatre.
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Guns must not control the Party.
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829. Just like aiming at the target,
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836. that capitalism is no better today
than yesterday...
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837. Back to Moscow!
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838. As economic
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as a system of relations
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840. of men together.
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841. With their work, with nature.
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842. With the people of the world.
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844. By the use he does or does not make
of resources and science,
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creative capacities,
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849. the problem of its rise to power
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855. Isn't that Michel?
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856. You think so?
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857. Listen to how he pronounces "s".
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and against whom.
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- No.
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864. The combat group will have its own
organisation, personnel and finances.
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865. This is Radio Peking.
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867. Those in favour raise their hands.
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of conspiracy
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of terrorist activity.
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882. Yes, well, they excluded me.
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883. It's all the same.
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under Hitler.
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by friends of Pompidou and Malraux
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by Jacques Rivette.
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since in formulas there's form
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it's a form of oppression.
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and that's romanticism.
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Pompidou, it's sweet death.
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in North Vietnam.
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918. As long as Racine portrays
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of the national budget...
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the great religious centres
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964. Information at Monit Travel,
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965. 4 place de l'Opera,
phone 742 06 46.
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968. It's sad, alright.
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969. Their argument was Sputnik Digest.
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970. It's a pretty disgusting magazine.
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the Party attitude
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973. the way they do in
L'Humanite Nouvelle or Garde Rouge.
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974. The main organ of the French
Marxist-Leninist movement.
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of the price of a fridge,
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977. of work rates or bathrooms,
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979. It wasn't Mitterrand
or Mendes France,
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980. it was the delegates
of the French Communist Party.
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981. It's not that.
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- Not read him seriously.
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one enemy finger to save ten.
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985. Rosa Luxembourg
Copy !req
986. saw the difficulty in answering.
Copy !req
987. How troubled she was.
Copy !req
988. How she blushed
without understanding.
Copy !req
989. Why, because movies and plays
Copy !req
990. cost money and the army is free.
Copy !req
991. It should be the opposite.
Copy !req
992. Shows should be free.
Copy !req
993. Those who want to make war
should pay to do so.
Copy !req
994. When they say the leftist agreement
is a dagger for Vietnam,
Copy !req
995. or that the Communist press...
Copy !req
996. Everyone talks of the crimes
of the Red Guard
Copy !req
997. in the Cultural Revolution.
Copy !req
998. Listen, this is fantastic.
Copy !req
999. The first date
for Juliette and Pierre
Copy !req
1000. opened doors
to a new world of magic.
Copy !req
1001. The world of words
no one had spoken before them.
Copy !req
1002. What are you reading?
Copy !req
1003. Henri gave me
the Party's women's magazine.
Copy !req
1004. Let's see.
Copy !req
1005. Like the night before,
their eyes met.
Copy !req
1006. Pierre couldn't speak.
Copy !req
1007. No point in being Communist
to use that soap opera language.
Copy !req
1008. I forbid you to read that.
Copy !req
1009. I said Henri's a revisionist.
Copy !req
1010. The joker's a king
and I sing Mao Mao...
Copy !req
1011. Reminds me of pictures
of L'Illustration from 1917,
Copy !req
1012. that treated Bolsheviks as beatniks.
Copy !req
1013. They used the same terms
for the Bolsheviks
Copy !req
1014. as that paper uses for the Red Guard.
Copy !req
1015. You expect Le Figaro
to say that sort of thing.
Copy !req
1016. But when L'Humanite does,
it's disgusting.
Copy !req
1017. OK, there's work to do.
Copy !req
1018. For everyone.
Copy !req
1019. The other day I was reading
L'Humanite Nouvelle.
Copy !req
1020. They talked about the film
Johnny Guitar,
Copy !req
1021. that the Party leaders had shown
Copy !req
1022. at a meeting somewhere,
Copy !req
1023. I'm not sure where.
Copy !req
1024. But they attack the film
because it's American,
Copy !req
1025. even if it's good.
Copy !req
1026. So, as Veronique's big enemy,
Malraux says,
Copy !req
1027. liberty doesn't always
have clean hands.
Copy !req
1028. Veronique, what's the matter?
Copy !req
1029. Problems?
Copy !req
1030. I have too many enemies.
Copy !req
1031. Enemies? You?
Copy !req
1032. But who?
Copy !req
1033. You know, the warlords,
Copy !req
1034. the bureaucrats,
magnates and landowners
Copy !req
1035. and the reactionary intellectuals.
Copy !req
1036. Those are my enemies.
Copy !req
1037. Well, that makes a lot
of enemies, indeed.
Copy !req
1038. What are you up to?
Copy !req
1039. Not much.
Copy !req
1040. Writing in Les Temps Modernes
as always,
Copy !req
1041. some books...
Copy !req
1042. For this year I have a new project.
Copy !req
1043. What?
Copy !req
1044. I want to do cultural action.
Copy !req
1045. But what's that?
Copy !req
1046. I don't think
anyone really knows yet.
Copy !req
1047. And I want to try an experiment.
Copy !req
1048. But culture and action are old words.
Copy !req
1049. Yes, but culture is cut off
from action now.
Copy !req
1050. At least it seems so.
Copy !req
1051. So it doesn't interest me.
Copy !req
1052. - Besides, I agree with you.
- You do?
Copy !req
1053. What interests me is
Copy !req
1054. that culture gives control
of the world.
Copy !req
1055. Concretely, when will you do it?
Copy !req
1056. I start in two months.
Copy !req
1057. The experiment will last a year.
Copy !req
1058. Because I want to see
what's possible.
Copy !req
1059. What is the experiment?
Copy !req
1060. With a whole team,
we're going to try...
Copy !req
1061. - In what area?
- Acting, for example.
Copy !req
1062. - Theatre?
- Yes, in a theatre at Châlon.
Copy !req
1063. The Bourgogne Theatre.
We'll try to...
Copy !req
1064. You'll move out of town?
Copy !req
1065. I'm going to Bourgogne.
Copy !req
1066. But you know, Châlon isn't very far.
Copy !req
1067. Isn't leaving Paris sad?
Copy !req
1068. No, I'm glad.
Copy !req
1069. Delighted?
Copy !req
1070. Because I can't work here anymore.
Copy !req
1071. Anyway, I don't write
when I'm in Paris.
Copy !req
1072. My books aren't progressing.
Copy !req
1073. Maybe I can start this action
outside Paris
Copy !req
1074. and write too.
Copy !req
1075. Is it important to take action?
Copy !req
1076. Yes, if we manage
Copy !req
1077. to do something effective.
Copy !req
1078. I don't want to start something
just for pleasure
Copy !req
1079. or to soothe my conscience.
Copy !req
1080. So why start any action?
Copy !req
1081. It seems to me, on that level
there's something to be done.
Copy !req
1082. To place today's men and women
Copy !req
1083. in a position to receive
the world as it is.
Copy !req
1084. Not only to receive,
but to act on it,
Copy !req
1085. to have a hold.
Copy !req
1086. That means
you're leaving the university?
Copy !req
1087. Leaving, if you want.
Copy !req
1088. I'm breaking with an attitude
widespread in the university,
Copy !req
1089. which is to consider the others,
Copy !req
1090. the ones we address,
as mere receivers.
Copy !req
1091. It's true,
and I wouldn't want to be...
Copy !req
1092. Isn't what's happening
in China important?
Copy !req
1093. Of course it's important.
Copy !req
1094. For example, closing the universities
I think is great.
Copy !req
1095. Right, you think it's great.
Copy !req
1096. But do you have an idea
what will happen afterwards?
Copy !req
1097. They must re-open them.
Copy !req
1098. The students
are in the fields for now.
Copy !req
1099. That reminds me of something.
Copy !req
1100. Remember Natalie?
Copy !req
1101. Yes, I do.
Copy !req
1102. Her parents voted for Mendes France.
Copy !req
1103. That doesn't matter.
Copy !req
1104. Before I prepared for my exams
with you in September,
Copy !req
1105. she and I picked peaches
near Avignon.
Copy !req
1106. Now it seems to me that
Copy !req
1107. doing manual labour beforehand
Copy !req
1108. helped me pass the exams.
Copy !req
1109. That helped you understand
what I said,
Copy !req
1110. talking about philosophy?
Copy !req
1111. A little. In June...
Copy !req
1112. I think there's a link.
Copy !req
1113. In June, I didn't do
anything physical and failed.
Copy !req
1114. I think there's a possible link.
Copy !req
1115. What's the conclusion?
Copy !req
1116. You should pick peaches?
Copy !req
1117. But you agree with me?
Copy !req
1118. Something's wrong at the university.
Many things.
Copy !req
1119. Of course.
Copy !req
1120. It's apparent enough. So?
Copy !req
1121. You agree
education's the big problem?
Copy !req
1122. It's one of the biggest problems.
Copy !req
1123. So?
Copy !req
1124. Shouldn't we start from scratch?
Copy !req
1125. But how?
Copy !req
1126. Close the universities,
like in China.
Copy !req
1127. You will do that yourself?
Copy !req
1128. If the authorities
aren't capable of it.
Copy !req
1129. If necessary, I'll close them.
Copy !req
1130. How?
Copy !req
1131. I have an idea.
Copy !req
1132. Tell me your idea,
Copy !req
1133. if you can.
Copy !req
1134. You see,
what disgusts me is teaching.
Copy !req
1135. It's always a question of class.
Culture is class culture.
Copy !req
1136. You know the Tutankhamen exhibit.
Copy !req
1137. Why do all the people run there?
The gold.
Copy !req
1138. Even workers act bourgeois
and go and see the gold.
Copy !req
1139. Because if it was in paper,
they wouldn't bother.
Copy !req
1140. I understand,
Copy !req
1141. but your idea...
Copy !req
1142. - Close the university.
- But how?
Copy !req
1143. With bombs.
Copy !req
1144. With bombs!
Copy !req
1145. You're going to throw bombs?
Copy !req
1146. Once we kill students and teachers,
they'll stop going.
Copy !req
1147. The university will close.
Copy !req
1148. You're doing that alone?
Copy !req
1149. Well, there are two or three of us.
Copy !req
1150. Two or three... But...
Copy !req
1151. But during the Algerian War,
Copy !req
1152. when Djamila Bouhired blew up
cafes, you defended her
Copy !req
1153. while all the press was against her.
Copy !req
1154. All of France was against her.
Copy !req
1155. That's right.
Copy !req
1156. Only there was a difference.
Copy !req
1157. Tell me if I'm wrong.
Copy !req
1158. Explain it to me.
Copy !req
1159. There was a whole people
behind Djamila.
Copy !req
1160. Men and women
were already fighting.
Copy !req
1161. It was for independence
and I, too, want mine.
Copy !req
1162. You want independence.
How many of you want it that way?
Copy !req
1163. You told me two or three.
Copy !req
1164. But many people don't realise it yet.
And we think for them.
Copy !req
1165. It's for them.
Copy !req
1166. You think you can make
a revolution for others?
Copy !req
1167. But you agree
working is part of the struggle.
Copy !req
1168. But what is the struggle?
Copy !req
1169. Look, if I want to know
Copy !req
1170. revolutionary theory and methods,
Copy !req
1171. I must participate in a revolution.
Copy !req
1172. You can participate,
but you can't invent one.
Copy !req
1173. But if I want knowledge,
I need practical experience.
Copy !req
1174. - Do you agree?
- I do.
Copy !req
1175. Only revolutionary practice
Copy !req
1176. implies a knowledge of the situation.
Copy !req
1177. The situation is bad.
Copy !req
1178. You know that, but do you know...
Copy !req
1179. And that'll make it known.
Copy !req
1180. Do you know a possible remedy?
Copy !req
1181. But authentic knowledge
comes from direct experience.
Copy !req
1182. First-hand experience.
Copy !req
1183. Does it tell you the content
to give your action?
Copy !req
1184. Because terrorism is only a start.
Copy !req
1185. - Isn't it terrorism?
- Yes, it is.
Copy !req
1186. So terrorism supposes
underlying bases.
Copy !req
1187. We've studied for two years.
Copy !req
1188. For two years,
and how have you studied it?
Copy !req
1189. We live the problem.
Copy !req
1190. You live it.
Copy !req
1191. You're no longer a student.
You may know nothing.
Copy !req
1192. I still know a few things.
Copy !req
1193. No, I'm sorry.
Copy !req
1194. You're right. I know a few things.
Not as much as you, of course.
Copy !req
1195. - I'm in it.
- I don't suffer directly.
Copy !req
1196. I suffer and I'm not alone.
Copy !req
1197. But what's the point
Copy !req
1198. of killing people
if you don't know
Copy !req
1199. what you'll do next,
if you don't know what terms...
Copy !req
1200. But we know what we'll do.
Copy !req
1201. So, what will you do afterwards?
Copy !req
1202. I don't believe you know.
Copy !req
1203. You only know
the present system is awful
Copy !req
1204. and you're impatient to end it.
Copy !req
1205. Not awful, just bad.
Copy !req
1206. What we do afterwards
is not my work.
Copy !req
1207. - You don't care.
- No, I don't.
Copy !req
1208. Afterwards,
I'll continue studying the situation.
Copy !req
1209. Where will you study it?
Copy !req
1210. I'm only a worker
producing revolution.
Copy !req
1211. So be a worker and really work.
Copy !req
1212. The way you're going
you won't last a week, as I see it.
Copy !req
1213. - Why?
- You'll be arrested long before.
Copy !req
1214. But you ran from the police.
Copy !req
1215. And it lasted a long time...
Copy !req
1216. There were many sympathizers
among the population,
Copy !req
1217. because even those
not quite in favour
Copy !req
1218. of Algerian independence
didn't denounce us.
Copy !req
1219. You have sympathizers,
but they won't go
Copy !req
1220. as far as mass murder.
Copy !req
1221. And it'll be mass murder.
Copy !req
1222. We need help
since some Communists
Copy !req
1223. are allied with revisionists
to denounce us.
Copy !req
1224. - You didn't know.
- You're not prepared...
Copy !req
1225. L'Humanite and Le Figaro
are in league now.
Copy !req
1226. Alright.
Copy !req
1227. But your action
will lead to nothing
Copy !req
1228. if it isn't upheld
by a group, a class,
Copy !req
1229. by many men and women
Copy !req
1230. who agree entirely and will pay...
Copy !req
1231. Take the young Russian nihilists,
for example.
Copy !req
1232. So?
Copy !req
1233. They made bombs
and criminal attempts.
Copy !req
1234. And the 1917 revolution
came afterwards. In October.
Copy !req
1235. You think you can compare
Czarist Russia
Copy !req
1236. and the situation now in France?
Copy !req
1237. You call yourself Marxist-Leninist.
Copy !req
1238. Well, even if we can't
compare them,
Copy !req
1239. we can draw a lesson from China.
Copy !req
1240. But the lessons you draw
are very abstract.
Copy !req
1241. You don't draw lessons
by superposing...
Copy !req
1242. You think it's a mistake?
Copy !req
1243. I think so.
Copy !req
1244. You're heading towards a dead-end.
Copy !req
1245. Some comrades
Copy !req
1246. undertake their main task...
Copy !req
1247. But not firmly in hand.
Copy !req
1248. They can't do good work.
Copy !req
1249. Committee Work Techniques,
13 March 1949.
Copy !req
1250. It's not so much that.
Copy !req
1251. I told you
the arguments were valid
Copy !req
1252. but all mixed up.
Copy !req
1253. Marxism is first of all a science.
Copy !req
1254. And there,
Copy !req
1255. the arguments were a mess,
off the cuff.
Copy !req
1256. They were a bit like children.
Copy !req
1257. Yes, you know the story
of the Egyptian children?
Copy !req
1258. Then I'll tell you.
Copy !req
1259. The Egyptians believed
their language
Copy !req
1260. was that of the gods.
Copy !req
1261. One day, to prove it,
Copy !req
1262. they put new-born babies
in a house
Copy !req
1263. far from any society
Copy !req
1264. to see if they would learn to talk.
Copy !req
1265. To speak Egyptian alone.
Copy !req
1266. They came back 15 years later.
Copy !req
1267. And what did they find?
Copy !req
1268. The kids talking together,
but bleating like sheep.
Copy !req
1269. They hadn't noticed
Copy !req
1270. that next to the house
was a sheep-pen.
Copy !req
1271. For us,
in that flat where we were,
Copy !req
1272. Marxism-Leninism
was a bit like the sheep.
Copy !req
1273. Any volunteers?
Copy !req
1274. OK. Me.
Copy !req
1275. I believe in terror.
Copy !req
1276. For me, whole revolutions
Copy !req
1277. are made of terror.
Copy !req
1278. Who is it?
Copy !req
1279. A bombless revolutionary
isn't a revolutionary.
Copy !req
1280. For the moment, we're only a few.
Copy !req
1281. Tomorrow, we'll be many.
Copy !req
1282. Tomorrow, I may no longer exist.
Copy !req
1283. I am happy, I am proud of that.
Copy !req
1284. Terrorism is not an act
of liberation,
Copy !req
1285. but a means to impose a programme.
Copy !req
1286. Give me a bomb.
Copy !req
1287. Give me a bomb.
Copy !req
1288. Let's talk in the kitchen.
Copy !req
1289. I suggest refusing Kirilov
and drawing lots.
Copy !req
1290. You think he'll commit suicide?
Copy !req
1291. I'm sure of it.
Copy !req
1292. They say that,
but when the time comes...
Copy !req
1293. It's been going on for two weeks.
Copy !req
1294. But he's serious this time.
Copy !req
1295. Still, he didn't want
to sign the paper.
Copy !req
1296. Ask him again.
Copy !req
1297. I tried all day yesterday.
Copy !req
1298. You can't talk to him.
Copy !req
1299. He doesn't want to.
Copy !req
1300. He still has the revolver?
Copy !req
1301. He's keeping it.
Copy !req
1302. He'll give it up
once he's shot himself.
Copy !req
1303. Listen, Serge...
Copy !req
1304. Give me the paper.
Copy !req
1305. In my pocket.
Copy !req
1306. Leave me alone.
Copy !req
1307. Did you sign it?
Copy !req
1308. I, Serge Dimitri Kirilov,
Copy !req
1309. have murdered Michael Sholokov,
Copy !req
1310. the Soviet Minister of Culture,
Copy !req
1311. in Paris
as the French government's guest.
Copy !req
1312. The purpose of this murder was,
Copy !req
1313. one, to stop the Soviet puppet
from inaugurating
Copy !req
1314. the new university buildings
Copy !req
1315. where he was to speak
before the puppet Malraux...
Copy !req
1316. Go on.
Copy !req
1317. Two, this is the first murder
in a series.
Copy !req
1318. Violence will be the answer
to the cultural suffocation
Copy !req
1319. willingly imposed
on the universities.
Copy !req
1320. Serge Kirilov, 15 August 1967.
Very good.
Copy !req
1321. Do I wear the hat or not?
Copy !req
1322. No, I won't.
Copy !req
1323. You have the gun?
Copy !req
1324. What's his name again?
Copy !req
1325. Uh, Shokolov...
Copy !req
1326. No, Sholokov.
Copy !req
1327. You sure?
Copy !req
1328. Yes, that's it.
Copy !req
1329. But I can't ask his name.
Copy !req
1330. Do as we already said,
you ask for...
Copy !req
1331. When he looks at the register,
you find Sholokov.
Copy !req
1332. It will be upside down.
Copy !req
1333. They write big, it's easy.
Copy !req
1334. Alright.
Copy !req
1335. So?
Copy !req
1336. He opened the door and I fired.
Come on.
Copy !req
1337. Shit, shit, stop.
Copy !req
1338. What is it?
Copy !req
1339. - I made a mistake.
- How's that?
Copy !req
1340. I read Sholokov
upside down alright
Copy !req
1341. and the room number 23.
Copy !req
1342. But since it was upside down
I inverted.
Copy !req
1343. That made it 32,
so I went to room 32.
Copy !req
1344. You shot the guy in 32.
Copy !req
1345. Go back.
Copy !req
1346. But park in front this time.
Copy !req
1347. We... Communists
Copy !req
1348. not only...
Copy !req
1349. do not fight...
Copy !req
1350. against just wars...
Copy !req
1351. but take an active part.
Copy !req
1352. He committed suicide?
Copy !req
1353. I didn't know.
Copy !req
1354. Kirilov.
Copy !req
1355. If Marxism-Leninism exists,
Copy !req
1356. then anything goes.
Copy !req
1357. That means we must pay...
Copy !req
1358. Attention...
Copy !req
1359. To the quantitative aspect
of a problem...
Copy !req
1360. and do quantitative analysis.
Copy !req
1361. I'm fed up with this job!
Copy !req
1362. You must participate
in changing reality.
Copy !req
1363. Maybe I'll return to Besancon.
Copy !req
1364. Will you join
the normal Communist Party?
Copy !req
1365. Certainly, as soon as I find work.
Copy !req
1366. I've applied at a laboratory.
Copy !req
1367. And if it doesn't work out,
Copy !req
1368. I'll go to East Germany.
Copy !req
1369. They need chemists.
Copy !req
1370. It's too bad about your quarrels.
Copy !req
1371. I know it's stupid.
Copy !req
1372. But you know, what I want...
Copy !req
1373. is some quiet.
Copy !req
1374. They were too fanatical.
Copy !req
1375. The silence of infinite space.
Copy !req
1376. It's not silence that scares me,
but sound and fury.
Copy !req
1377. You never saw them again?
Copy !req
1378. I don't know what became of them.
Copy !req
1379. THE
Copy !req
1380. OF
Copy !req
1381. Look, how funny.
Copy !req
1382. It's disgusting. Mum will be furious.
Copy !req
1383. They put up your cousin.
Copy !req
1384. Maybe they killed the minister.
Copy !req
1385. I hope inside is alright.
Copy !req
1386. AND
Copy !req
1387. Fruit and vegetables!
Copy !req
1388. HIS
Copy !req
1389. Lettuce, tomatoes...
Copy !req
1390. OF
Copy !req
1391. Radishes and eggs: 10 cents!
Copy !req
1392. One price, fruit and vegetables!
Copy !req
1393. One lettuce: 10 cents.
Copy !req
1394. 10 cents, one price,
try your luck.
Copy !req
1395. AND
Copy !req
1396. OF
Copy !req
1397. I don't want to see anyone.
Copy !req
1398. Don't be hurt if my zeal
breaks the secret of your solitude.
Copy !req
1399. How long have you been so afraid?
Copy !req
1400. Since Marcel left me.
Copy !req
1401. Under what sign did you bring into
the world such an unhappy creature?
Copy !req
1402. What'll I do?
Copy !req
1403. Never doubt a god is fighting
for you. The sacrifice is over.
Copy !req
1404. Just join the Marxists.
Copy !req
1405. I want vengeance.
Copy !req
1406. - You'll lose.
- Get out of here.
Copy !req
1407. But why leave?
Copy !req
1408. Why be your own enemy?
Copy !req
1409. I have too much pain.
Copy !req
1410. Enough, stop.
It's time to be logical.
Copy !req
1411. What shall I tell them?
Copy !req
1412. I'll write to them.
Copy !req
1413. You're crazy.
Copy !req
1414. A dreamer.
Copy !req
1415. OK, it's fiction,
but it brings me closer to reality.
Copy !req
1416. Everything must be ready Saturday.
Coming, Blandine?
Copy !req
1417. Think about it.
Copy !req
1418. It was all thought out.
Copy !req
1419. The end of summer
meant back to school for me.
Copy !req
1420. A struggle for me
and some comrades.
Copy !req
1421. On the other hand, I was wrong.
Copy !req
1422. I thought I'd made a leap forward.
Copy !req
1423. And I realised
Copy !req
1424. I'd made only the first timid step
of a long march.
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