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On my parents scale of values, the more western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
-Amos Oz
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On My Parents Scale Of Values, The

Amos Oz
On my parents scale of values, the more western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
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If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. if we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. we would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. and if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.
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A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. the romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. he is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.
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