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“I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“Old Drayton thought that a man that lived here, and would be a poet ... should have in him certain brave, translunary things, and a fine madness should possess his brain. Certainly it were as well, that he might be up to the occasion.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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