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Witold Gombrowicz
“In a universe more and more abstract, it is up to us to make sure that the human voice does not cease to be heard.”
Witold Gombrowicz, Diary

Alfred Polgar
“Many attempt without success to make up for their lack of talent with defects of character.”
Alfred Polgar

Robert Musil
“No fixed idea except to avoid fixed ideas.”
Robert Musil
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Clive James
“Even in its latterday form as a behavioural sink, a den of thieves and a bedlam of managerial fatuity, the magna civitas is still a magna solitudo, and a great solitude is what I need, while I work on the long task of forgiving myself for having been born blessed, and for a consuming melancholy that I never earned.”
Clive James, Always Unreliable

Clive James
“Learned books are published by the thousand, yet learning was never less trusted as something to be pursued for its own sake. Too often used for ill, it is now asked about its use for good, and usually on the assumption that any goodwill be measurable on a market, like a commodity.”
Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

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