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“ ”Nobody is entirely satisfied with the condition in which he or she lives: we often have the impression that these conditions are getting worse. Whose fault is this? It is tempting to seek a simple answer and an easily identifiable guilty person or group: it is this temptation that produces populist movements and parties.
About Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov (1 March 1939 - 7 February 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist, essayist and geologist.
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Cierto es que este mal no era homogéneo, de otra manera la vida no hubiera sido posible: yo seguía encontrándome con gente maravillosa, o me aprovechaba de gestos maravillosos de quienes no siempre los tenían. En ausencia de una vida pública decente, la vida privada latía a plenitud (aun cuando en esos momentos yo no me daba cuenta de ello): los amores, las amistades, las pasiones intelectuales o artísticas, eran intensos
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В голямата си част медиите не се задоволяват да показват войната, те я възхваляват; след като са избрали своя лагер, те дават приноса си във военните усилия. Честно казано, войната почти винаги предизвиква вълнение, може би защото представлява par excellence ситуацията, в която в името на висшия идеал човек е готов да рискува най-ценното за него нещо – своя живот.