Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
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For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.Georg Simmel
For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
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For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.
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The eighteenth century called upon man to free himself of all the historical bonds in the state and in religion, in morals and in economics.
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The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
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Very often it is impossible for us to restrain our interpretation of another, our theory of his subjective characteristics and intentions.
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