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I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the street...

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All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not, the...

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Julio CortázarAround the Day in Eighty Worlds

A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered int...

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Karl MarxThe Communist Manifesto

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of ...

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Kenneth MinoguePolitics: A Very Short Introduction

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a wh...

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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

To be the mistress of a married man is to have the better role. Do you realize? His dirty shirt, his...

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Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so ...

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Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

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The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about ...

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P. J. O'RourkeHolidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked...

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Peter AckroydAlbion: The Origins of the English Imagination

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Eu...

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In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.

We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex m...

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The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air trave...

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I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in...

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My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage...

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High Europe always played at ethnic contempt because it was High Europe, and so had the strength, th...

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Thomas KeneallySearching for Schindler: A Memoir

Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milde...

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Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas...

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Thomas JeffersonLetters of Thomas Jefferson

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are no...

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From the beginning, Europe assumed the power to make decisions within the international trading syst...

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On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several ext...

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Walter RodneyHow Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Modern Existentialism... is a total European creation, perhaps the last philosophic legacy of Europe...

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The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.

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Bill BrysonNeither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terror...

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And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to t...

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Having confronted the world with little except a battered typewriter and a certain resilience, he ca...

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Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay ...

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In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price,...

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly ever...

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You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards hav...

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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain...

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Europe is equal to its historical task. Against the anti-spiritual, anti-heroic 'ideals' of America-...

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Francis Parker YockeyThe Enemy of Europe/The Enemy of Our Enemies

I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South A...

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Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ult...

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Franz RosenzweigFranz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd yo...

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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.

Germany is our fatherland Europe is our future.

Far from being Eurocentric, my analysis "exoticizes" Europe. Europe is historically aberrant. In som...

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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless str...

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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless str...

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Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last se...

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