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“The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.”

Jacques Maritain

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The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

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That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie,…

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The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

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