I heard later that you despised me for changing my convictions. But whom did I abandon? The enemies of living life — the outmoded little liberals who were afraid of their own independence, the lackeys of thought, the enemies of individuality and freedom, the decrepit proponents of everything dead and rotten! What did they have? Senility, the golden mean, the most philistine and vile mediocrity, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as a lackey conceives it or as it was conceived by a Frenchman in 17933… But the main thing is the scoundrels, scoundrels and more
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