"If a man despises the applause of the crowd of today, it is because he seeks to survive in renewed minorities for generations. ... He wishes to prolong himself in time rather than in space. The crowd soon overthrows its own idols and the statue lies broken at the foot of the pedestal without anyone heeding it; but those who win the hearts of the elect will long be the objects of a fervent worship in some shrine, small and secluded no doubt, but capable of preserving them from the flood of oblivion."
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Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life (1913)
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