Oku Shutaro - Stage Direction History

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“Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”
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“As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.”
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“... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.”
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