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- Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of…
- Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the…
- Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is…
- All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
- There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
- Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
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