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Georges Duhamel Quotes

d. 1966

Georges Duhamel (June 30, 1884 – April 13, 1966), was a French author.

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The instinct to synthesize is a good one so long as it is concerned with elements that are capable of forming a whole. But today the man in the street is fed, morally as well as physically, on a mass of debris which has no resemblance to a nourishing diet. There is no method in this madness, which is the very negation of culture.

Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters (1937)

It is an extraordinary thing that this civilization, which wears out our nerves and exacts an almost painful effort from us in all our doings, should be at great pains to spare the mass of people that intellectual effort which is the only measure of true culture.

Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters (1937)

… the cinema and the radio and the effect they have had in weakening the impulse to spiritual effort

Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters (1937)

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