“A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.”
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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