"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
"The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world."
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Source: Edmund Wilson, Lewis M. Dabney (1983). “The portable Edmund Wilson”, Viking Adult
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