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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

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Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.

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The literary "fellow travelers" of the Revolution.

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Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes.

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If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in the "mirror" of literature?

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Leon Trotsky

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Born: November 7, 1879
Died: August 21, 1940 (aged 60)
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