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“Whom I most hated living, thou hast made me
With thy religious truth and modesty,
Now in his ashes honor.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“There is in every either-or a certain naivete which may well befit the evaluator, but ill- becomes the thinker, for whom opposites dissolve in series of transitions.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)