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"...es una criatura frívola e imprevisible y quizá, a la manera de un jugador de ajedrez, gusta solo del proceso de llegar a la meta, y no de la meta misma."

And what is it that civilization softens in us? The only gain of civilization for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations—and absolutely nothing more. And through the development of this many-sidedness man may come to finding enjoyment in bloodshed…In any case civilization has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.

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