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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. – Proverb

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To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin

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Never criticize a man until youve walked a mile in his moccasins. – American Indian Proverb

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