Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.Gunther Grass
Only the Social Democrats will truly defend the culture of the German people.
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Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
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The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever.Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles.The mystery of India, say Indologists.
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