He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

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No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

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Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

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Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

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Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

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