Is modern society leading people into isolation?
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the imagination of the good artist or thinker produces continuously good, mediocre, and bad things, but his judgment, trained and sharpened to a fine point, rejects, selects, connects... All great artists and thinkers (are) great workers, indefatigable not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering.
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