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The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

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Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

Max Nordau

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Born: July 29, 1849
Died: January 23, 1923 (aged 73)
Bio: Max Simon Nordau, was a Zionist leader, physician, author, and social critic.
Known for:
  1. Degeneration (1892)
  2. The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization (1884)
  3. Zionism and Anti-Semitism
  4. How Women Love (Soul Analysis)
  5. Soap Bubbles (1896)

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