If any one of their critics is converted to nationalism, that is sufficient for him to become by the same token a friend of peace. He becomes convinced that in all warlike civilizations women have been humiliated and have occupied an inferior position.
 Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again (1927). copy citation

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Author Marcel Proust
Source Finding Time Again
Topic nationalism civilization
Date 1927
Language English
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Note Translated by Ian Patterson
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