Georges Duhamel Quote

It is an extraordinary thing that this civilization, which wears out our nerves and exacts an almost painful effort from us in all our doings, should be at great pains to spare the mass of people that intellectual effort which is the only measure of true culture.


p. - Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937)


It is an extraordinary thing that this civilization, which wears out our nerves and exacts an almost painful effort from us in all our doings, should ...

It is an extraordinary thing that this civilization, which wears out our nerves and exacts an almost painful effort from us in all our doings, should ...

It is an extraordinary thing that this civilization, which wears out our nerves and exacts an almost painful effort from us in all our doings, should ...

It is an extraordinary thing that this civilization, which wears out our nerves and exacts an almost painful effort from us in all our doings, should ...