"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
"One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting."
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Source: 1941 In the Partisan Review,15 Apr. Reprinted in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, vol.2.
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