Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century.... The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become ...abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies... him, or else transforms him into himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's idea in a card game is war--cruel, devastating and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement... and burglary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms... are all known, have all been practicised. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Panurge was of medium stature, neither too large, nor too small ... and subject by nature to a malady known at the time as "Money-...deficiency,"Ma singular hardship; nevertheless, he had sixty-three ways of finding some for his needs, the most honorable and common of which was by a form of larceny practiced furtively.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the manipulations of childhood are a little larceny, they may grow and change with the child into qualities useful and admire... in the grown-up world. When they are the futile struggle for love and concern and protection, they may become the warped and ruthless machinations of adults who seek in the advantages of power what they could never win as children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woodlands, meadows,streams and rivers-- Blind to all of it all my life long.... Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ballades by the score with the same old thought: The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;... And what is love but a rose that fades?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »