The modernist thirst for originality makes the mediocre artist believe that the secret of originality consists simply in being different. (Nicolás Gómez Dávila)

The modernist thirst for originality makes the mediocre artist believe that the secret of originality consists simply in being different.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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