To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.Max Lerner
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
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The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Max Lerner
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