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““To fill in all the gaps in my knowledge beforehand was out of the question for me. I had to write now, or not at all. And I wanted to write.””

Johan Huizinga

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You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

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The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

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If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

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We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge…

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If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should…

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The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

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Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them…

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If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures…

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“Nyugalom az egyén számára, könyvektől körülvéve, ez a legvágyottabb állapot.”

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