"The wrong way always seems the more reasonable."

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“The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.”

“Injustice we worship; all that lifts us out of the miseries of life is the sublime fruit of injustice. Every immortal deed was an act of fearful injustice; the world of grandeur, of triumph, of courage, of lofty aspiration, was built up on injustice. Man would not be man but for injustice.”

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“He must put his shoulder to the wheel and get it right; one more push, that was all that was wanted.”

“But if you want to be a painter you must go to France — France is the only school of Art.”

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