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" Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. "

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" The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. "

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" The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. "

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" God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. "

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" The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. "

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" Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. "