Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value. For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. The Soul of Man Under Socialism
If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it. Book VII
Food production, and competition and diffusion between societies, led as ultimate causes ... of conquest. Guns, Germs And Steel
The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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