"Cynicism is intellectual dandyism."

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"There is nothing more deplorable than those skeptics and reformers, liberal priests and humanistically-oriented scholars, who moan about “soullessness,” “barren materialism,” what is “unsatisfying in …"

— Robert Musil

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— M. C. Escher

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