"No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies."
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"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."
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"La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage."
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"Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare."
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"And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man."
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"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
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"With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes."
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"Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour."
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"Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada."
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"I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things."
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"Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life."
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"You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages."
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"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures."
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"The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure."
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"An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious."
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"I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers."
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"Savage is he who saves himself."
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"Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person."
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"Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages."
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"The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage."
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