English - Philosopher | August 22, 1933 -
Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.
Theodore Zeldin
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A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.
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People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.
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Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness.
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The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.
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We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.
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Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.
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The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.
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To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.
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Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.
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The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.
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The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.
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