The year is now 1774. Poseurs or not, it is time to grow up. It is time to enter the public realm, the world of public acts and public attitudes. Everything that happens now will happen in the light of history. It is not a midday luminary, but a corpse-candle to the intellect; at best, it is a secondhand lunar light, error-breeding, sand-blind and parched.
Camille Desmoulins, 1793: "They think that gaining freedom is like growing up: you have to suffer."
Maximilien Robespierre, 1793: "History is fiction.
Camille Desmoulins, 1793: "They think that gaining freedom is like growing up: you have to suffer."
Maximilien Robespierre, 1793: "History is fiction.
( Hilary Mantel )
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