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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. – R. D. Laing

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The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical. – Eugenio Montale

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