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" The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. "

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" God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. "

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" With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. "

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