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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."
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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."
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"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."
Vision
"Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life."
Life
"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."
Genius
"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."
Life
"There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness."
Cultural
"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."
Work
"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."
Heart
"To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war."
Peace
"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."
Language
"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."
Man
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