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The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization by Max Nordau
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“Man has two powerful instincts which govern his whole life and give the first impulse to all his actions: the instinct of self-preservation and the instinct of race-preservation. The former reveals itself in its simplest form as hunger, the latter as love.”
― Max Nordau, The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization
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