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"Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes a madhouse."

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A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay.

— Simon Bolivar

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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