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John Carroll Quotes: Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.
         

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.


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