"The individual is nothing, society is everything" ."

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“The reader collaborates with the author in every book", or "The reader is co-author in every book”

“Young men in meetings put in common nothing but their mediocrity.”

“What distinguishes an argument from a play upon words, is that the latter cannot be translated.”

“A strange rage this modern mania to give a common manner to all minds and to destroy individuality.”

“There is no reality for me but pure thought. Minds alone are interesting.”

“Reality, it cannot be repeated too often, varies with every one of us.”

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"The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art-as-art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art."

— Ad Reinhardt

Art1913–1967

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— Roger Ebert

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"Today is my thirtieth birthday and I sit on the ocean wave in the schoolyard and wait for Kate and think of nothing. Now in the thirty-first year of my dark pilgrimage on this earth and knowing less t…"

— Walker Percy

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