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Against Respectability

Against Respectability

Christians and Nietzscheans agree: aristocrats of the soul must stand alone

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What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

—Thomas Carlyle

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