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How right was the Russian writer Maxim Gorki: "It is necessary to lift oneself above politics. Politics has always a repugnant character because it is inevitably founded on the lie, the calumny, and violence." One could add "cynicism" and "hypocrisy."

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 579