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The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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We Abjure Our Symbolist Masters..., from War, the World's Only Hygiene (1911-1915)

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