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“Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of redemption. The same applies to our view of the past, which is the concern of history... There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.”
― On the Concept of History
― On the Concept of History
“Music has that power to revive memories, sometimes so intensely that they hurt.”
― Yesterday
― Yesterday
“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
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“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
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“For what are called criminals nowadays are not criminals at all. Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime. That indeed is the reason why our criminals are, as a class, so absolutely uninteresting from any psychological point of view. They are not marvellous Macbeths and terrible Vautrins. They are merely what ordinary, respectable, commonplace people would be if they had not got enough to eat. ”
― The Soul of Man under Socialism
― The Soul of Man under Socialism
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