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• Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole…
• It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
• Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the…
• How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold…
• Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward:…
• The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives,…
• [H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be,…
• We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian…
• The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
• If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble…

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