"Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."

Bukowski, Charles on Bachelor
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"Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth."

Lawrence, D. H. on Decadence
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"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive."

Mann, Thomas on Democracy
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"Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist."

Mann, Thomas on Socializing and Socialism
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"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

Mann, Thomas on Tolerance
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