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"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed. Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan. Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad."

"Your expertise can elevate your impressions to bring you to an entirely new realm."

"Oh lord and master. High muckety-muck."

"And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority."
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"It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own."

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."

"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."
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