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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 230)
“People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.”
Quoted in: Ingo F. Walther (1996), Picasso, p. 67.
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