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Since the end of the period of belief, leaders exalt every defect, every kind of sadism, and gain all the more through their vices: vanity, ambition, war, death in a word.[16]

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline Mea culpa; suivi de la vie et l'oeuvre de Semmelweis (1937)

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