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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. – Gunther Grass

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Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. – Gunther Grass

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Information
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Gunther Grass
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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle — absolute busyness — then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy — and without consciousness. – Gunther Grass

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Modern, Modernism
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When the tide of life turns against you
And the current upsets your boat,
Dont waste tears on what might have been,
Just lie on your back and float. – Anon.

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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. – Thomas Carlyle

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The person who lives by hope will die by despair. – Italian Proverb

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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. – Joseph Conrad

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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. – Edward Abbey

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Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. – John Sterling

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I looked at films as a career from necessity but all I have really wanted is my home and children. The two things just do not work out together when one has to leave home at 5.30 am in the morning to go to the studio. – Dinah Sheridan

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