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"If we have nevertheless persisted in our endeavor to determine some of the facts about the life of Ludi Magister Jose…"

"Certainly, what nowadays we understand by personality is something quite different from what the biographers and hist…"

"We moderns are not interested in a hero’s pathology or family history, nor in his drives, his digestion, and how he s…"

"The Glass Bead Game is thus a mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them a…"

"This same eternal idea, which for us has been embodied in the Glass Bead Game, has underlain every movement of Mind t…"

"Since the end of the Middle Ages, intellectual life in Europe seems to have evolved along two major lines. The first …"

"In the course of the aforementioned Age of the Feuilleton, men came to enjoy an incredible degree of intellectual fre…"

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