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innashpitzberg7 октября 2012"Porcepic," grinned the tailor, "you'll be surprised one day. At what we will do."
"Nothing surprises me," answered Porcepic. "If history were cyclical, we'd now be in a decadence, would we not, and your projected Revolution only another symptom of it."
"A decadence is a falling-away," said Kholsky. "We rise."
"A decadence," Itague put in, "is a falling-away from what is human, and the further we fall the less human we become. Because we are less human, we foist off the humanity we have lost on inanimate objects and abstract theories."
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