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"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
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"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
"When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it."
"China is a civilization pretending to be a nation."
"Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex."
"Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress of humanity, modern history has postulated its own aims- the welfare of the French, German, or English people, or, in its highest abstraction, the welfare and civilization of humanity in general, by which is usually meant that of the peoples occupying a small northwesterly portion of a large continent."
"A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization."
"Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants."
"Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason."
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"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."
"There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power."
"Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one."
"Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion."
"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."
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