"Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant."
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"The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them."
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