"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
"One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later."
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Source: Edmund Wilson (1997). “The Edmund Wilson Reader”
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