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Max Nordau

"Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was only the vast fatigue which was experienced by the generation on which the multitudes of discoveries and innovations burst abruptly, imposing on it organic exigencies greatly surpassing its strength, which created favourable conditions under which these maladies could gain ground enormously, and become a danger to civilization."

Source : Max Simon Nordau (1895). “Degeneration”, London, Heinemann

Max Nordau

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“Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.”
“There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that's inherent - their femininity - in any way that might be considered seductive.”
“I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Earth.”

Source : Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.244, Simon and Schuster
“I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people who will not make the effort to be harsher or stricter on their own gooey egos than they are on other people.”
“Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.”
“Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic, sly and fantastically organized. It never ever has the illusion of the ability to stand on its own feet and to win in a fair competition. That is why it is ready to use any kind of means without hesitation. And of course it does - under the banners of the most noble ideas.”
“The packaging for music has become a sort of King James Bible, where it elevates the contents to something more spiritual. This is something else that drove me to a newspaper format. I thought, "Let's put it in a newspaper, to get away from that spiritual thing."”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.”

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