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Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes: France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.
         

France is a country where thinking is supposed to be furtive, invisible, almost clandestine. France is a country of cliques and sects.


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