Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other.
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The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
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The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
Charles Horton Cooley
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