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"This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to m..."

"For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that ..."

"Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity."

"The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, an..."

"To make your Opinion Count,you have to do something morethan just making Money."

"Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal."

"State first, subject second, statesman last."

"I believe you can only be lucky if you start out beingvery good"

"The public wants work which flatters its illusions."

"The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay."