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unhinged
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'the multi-colored setting of western life is subject to the law of osmosis. the average citizen of the west has no idea that a painter in a garret, a little-known musician, or a writer of 'unintelligible' verse is a magician who shapes all those things in life which he prizes. government officials give little thought to such matters for they consider them a waste of time. since it is not a planned economy, the western state cannot come to the aid of people working in the various arts. they go on, each pursuing his own chimera, sometimes dying of hunger; while nearby, wealthy men, not knowing what to do with their money, spend it on the latest whims of their benighted souls.' - czeslaw_milosz
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