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“Mere dreams, mere dreams! Yet Homer had not sung
Had he not found it certain beyond dreams
That out of lifes own self-delight had sprung
The abounding glittering jet....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Intellectual life is international. Only a period of discouragement, an age that has given up on itself, that wants to preserve, that has been driven onto the defensive, can be intellectually nationalist. Such a period is essentially conservative. A person who has progress in his heart is international.”
—Robert Musil (18801942)
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