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• Every action alters the soul of the doer.
• Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now…
• Optimism is cowardice.
• The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be…
• One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a…
• Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country…
• All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.
• Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal…
• Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This…
• Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness
• When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.
• One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

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