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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!
— Thomas Mann
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