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The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: Achievements Bourgeois Complicated Goals Life Middle-Class Person Pretend Privilege Project Refined Solid Stable You Yourself

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I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.

~Alexandra Cassavetes

Topics: About Bourgeois Fall Love Love Is Mature Most Naturally Nest People Something State Think Very I Think

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Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

~Andre Balazs

Topics: Area Bourgeois Course Evolved Former Gritty Most Neighborhood New New York York

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Will you tell me, 'Oh, painting is a special art, whereas anyone can write prose passably well'? Can he, indeed? ... Can you, sir? Nay, believe me, you are either an archangel or a very bourgeois gentleman indeed if you admit to having spoken English prose all your life without knowing it.

~Arthur Quiller-Couch

Topics: Admit All Your Life Anyone Art Believe Bourgeois Either English Gentleman Having He Indeed Knowing Life Me Nay Oh Painting Prose Sir Special Spoken Tell Very Well Whereas Will Without Write You Your

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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: Bourgeois Capitalism Century Combination Commercial Eighteenth Emancipate Europe Feudalism Itself Know Last Needed Quarter Which

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I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

~Carla Bruni

Topics: Active Bourgeois Contrary Day Doing Every Every Day Family Family Life Feminist Life Love On The Contrary Same Same Thing Thing I Love

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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

~Carla Bruni

Topics: Bourgeois Marriage Quiet Regular Something Thought Very

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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

~Cesare Pavese

Topics: Artists Bourgeois Monks State

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I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

~Charles De Gaulle

Topics: Against Bourgeois Diplomats Me Metro Military Only People Take Who

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I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

~Che Guevara

Topics: Bourgeois Common Couple Earth Employed Face Given Institutions Married Me More Than Whale Wipe Worthy Would

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