Kenneth Clark's Quote - Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest invent

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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest invent

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. – Kenneth Clark

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We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. – Kenneth Clark

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People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. – Kenneth Clark

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