What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose.
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Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. D...
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Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person.
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The devil's name is dullness.
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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
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Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
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He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
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He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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'Cruelty is the vice most natural to dullness of mind.'
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