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Quote by Henry Adams
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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