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“You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.”
 
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Name:   Johan Huizinga
 
Nationality:   Dutch
 
Date of Birth:   Dec 7, 1872
 
Date of Death:   Feb 1,  1945
 
Profession:   Historian
 
 
 
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Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
 
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Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
 
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Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
 
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It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
 
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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
 
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