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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.

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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.

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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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