The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.
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