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Paul Valéry

“We shall soon have to build heavily insulated cloisters where neither radio waves nor newspapers can come, in which ignorance of all politics will be guarded and cultivated. Speed, numbers, effects of surprise, contrast, repetition, size novelty, and credulity will be despised there. And thither, on certain days, visitors will come, to look through the iron bars at a few specimens of free men.”

Paul Valéry, Regards sur le monde actuel et autres essais
tags: freedom, men, thought
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Regards sur le monde actuel et autres essais Regards sur le monde actuel et autres essais by Paul Valéry
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