The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
~ John Ruskin
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Bourgeois thought judges social phenomena conscious or unconsciously, naïvely or subtly, consistently from the standpoint of the individual. No path leads from the individual to the totality.
~ György Lukács
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
~ Rollo May
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Simple awareness is the seed of responsibility.
~ Jenny Odell
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No well-run yacht basin is complete without at least two Estonians.
~ Ernest Hemmingway
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A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
~ T.S. Eliot
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Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
~ Aleksandr Pushkin
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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