Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

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• Allen Tate:

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• Allen Tate:

  According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and bec

• Allen Tate:

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• Allen Tate:

  The Spring I seek is in a new face only.

• Allen Tate:

  The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

• Wilhelm Dilthey:

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• Wilhelm Dilthey:

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• Wilhelm Dilthey:

  Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the