The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly.
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Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that
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His air of failure had nothing desperate about it; rather, it seemed to stem from an unresented realisation that he was not cut out for success, and his duty was therefore to ensure only that he failed in the correct and acceptable fashion.
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