That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
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Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.Herbert Read
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