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“Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.”
― Eric Hobsbawn

“The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.”
― Theodor W. Adorno

“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”
― Theodor Adorno

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

“What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.”
― Holderlin

“Sarcasm is irony which has lost its soul”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time