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Modernism
Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the factors that shaped Modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I. Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.
“
...if you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?
”
― Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod
― Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod
“
Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. I
believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a
warm heart. I believe if men could fuck with warm hearts, and the women
take it warm-heartedly, everything would come all right. It's all this
cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.
...more
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