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Our speech has ceased to speak, it shouts; it says cute, not beautiful, colossal, not great; it cannot find the right word any more, because the word is no longer the designation of an object, but the echo of some kind of gossip about the object.

Paul de Lagarde

What was most repulsive at the meetings was the stench of the guild, which assailed me everywhere: intellectual proletariat, that labors on its humdrum articles in the sweat of its brow, that does not know that science is to make one free and happy.

Paul de Lagarde

Paul de Lagarde

Paul de Lagarde

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Born: November 2, 1827

Died: December 22, 1891 (aged 64)

Bio: Paul Anton de Lagarde was a German polymath, biblical scholar and orientalist. He has been cited as one of the greatest orientalists of the 19th century.

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