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Antoine Arnault: 'What we sell are not products... that customers are going to put in a closet and forget.'

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Antoine Arnault: 'Growing up, I'd always visit boutiques with my father on the weekends.'

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Antoine Arnault: 'We absolutely take no decisions based on the share price, not for LVMH.'

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Antoine Arnault: 'The luxury industry has always been a little bit counter-cyclical.'

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Antoine Arnault: 'Millennials, as others, want creative, durable, desirable, and beautiful products. But they do add a new criteria: respect.'

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Antoine Arnault: 'Luxury takes many forms nowadays, but one thing doesn't change: luxury is about desire and the ability to create dreams.'

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Antoine Arnault: 'We have received a heritage of craftsmanship, of aesthetics, of taste, of identity. Our brands have the beauty to preserve and perpetuate it.'

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Georges Bataille: 'Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.'

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Georges Bataille: 'The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.'

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Georges Bataille: 'Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.'

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Georges Bataille: 'Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.'

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Georges Bataille: 'I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.'

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Georges Bataille: 'Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.'

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Georges Bataille: 'Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'The text is a limited field of possible constructions.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.'

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Paul Ricoeur: 'But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.'

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