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“…the people who dwell in the land of dimness, the people who could not see themselves except as formless shadows moving in a mist, the people who had gouged out their own eyes to keep from looking at themselves in the mirror, these people, these glorious people were none other than ourselves: The Americans.”
― Jonoah & the Green Stone
― Jonoah & the Green Stone
“Hate is also creative: it creates more hate.”
― Knees of a Natural Man
― Knees of a Natural Man
“To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.”
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― V.
“Naturally I am of the deeply felt conviction that it is quite nice, quite lovely to be capable of enthusiam.”
― Berlin Stories
― Berlin Stories
“Instances of delightfulness are always intrinsically beautiful, so to speak, and yet under the right circumstances they may be swinish as well, for what is humanly beautiful might, as it were, be too beautiful for human beings, for which reason people are glad to place beauty in proximity to pigpens, as one is no doubt justified in saying.”
― Microscripts
― Microscripts
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