"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic."
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"There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective."
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"Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern."
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"Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise."
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"No social stability without individual stability."
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"Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker."
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"Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible."
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"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions."
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"People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can't knock it."
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"Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals."
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"Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control."
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"The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die."
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"An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation."
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"Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be"
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"What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed."
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"Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is."
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"All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance."
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"Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom."
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"Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future."
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"One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success."
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