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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you. -- Brandon Sanderson
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille. -- Camille Desmoulins
I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven. -- David Sedaris
Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my dungeon years ago It vanished when the Bastille fell it vanished as everything written everything thought and planned will disappear -- Peter Weiss
There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille. -- Lytton Strachey
In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
I like a little bit of everything. I think I'll put on Guns 'N' Roses or Rolling Stones any day. But recently I like a band called Bastille, or The Weeknd I'm a big fan of as well. -- Steven R. McQueen
I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on Bastille Day, I asked myself, 'What more can I do in cycling?' I want to go out at the top. -- Richard Virenque
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic. -- Benjamin Rush
My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful! -- Bret Harte

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