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The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world.

Source: What's Happening in America (1966), in Partisan Review (New Brunswick, N.J., Winter 1967; repr. in Styles of Radical Will, 1969).
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16 1933-2004), US author, critic; She was one of the most influential contemporary American critics, utilizing new sensibility to evaluate art.

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