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Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. ↗

— Charles Simmons

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I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves. ↗

— Carly Simon

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The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage. ↗

— Gene Simmons

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