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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic…
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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to…
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Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
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The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person…
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
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A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
— Max Lerner
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
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Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in…
— Anatole France
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Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe…
— Richard Rorty
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Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and…
— Emile M. Cioran
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The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.
— Louis Aragon
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I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is…
— Georg Trakl
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The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a…
— Robert Bridges
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I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of…
— James A. Michener
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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