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A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he h

A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. – Elias Canetti

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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. – Elias Canetti

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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. – Elias Canetti

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Dont bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. – Salvador Dali

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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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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. – Robert Hewison

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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. – Terry Eagleton

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