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Scheduled as Daily Quote: 1910-09-29
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What a terrible poison to the mind is contemporary literature, especially to the youth of the people! First, they cloud their memory with the vague, confident, empty chatter of those who write for contemporaneity. The greatest evil of this talk is that it is made up of allusions, quotations from the most diverse, newest and oldest writers. The words of Plato, Hegel, Darwin are quoted, about which the writers have not even the faintest idea, alongside the words of a Gorky, Andreev, Artabasev and others, about which we don't even deserve to have an idea. In the second place, this talk is harmful because it imposes on the mind and leaves neither room nor leisure for the knowledge of the ancient writers, who have endured for thousands of years, not just ten or a hundred.

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What a terrible poison to the mind is contemporary literature, especially to the youth of the people! First, they cloud their memory with the vague, confident, empty chatter of those who write for contemporaneity. The greatest evil of this talk is that it is made up of allusions, quotations from the most diverse, newest and oldest writers. The words of Plato, Hegel, Darwin are quoted, about which the writers have not even the faintest idea, alongside the words of a Gorky, Andreev, Artabasev and others, about which we don't even deserve to have an idea. In the second place, this talk is harmful because it imposes on the mind and leaves neither room nor leisure for the knowledge of the ancient writers, who have endured for thousands of years, not just ten or a hundred.

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Romanian

"Ce otravă îngrozitoare pentru minte e literatura contemporană, mai ales pentru tinerii din popor! În primul rând, își îmbâcsesc memoria cu vorbăria neclară, încrezută, goală a celor care scriu pentru contemporaneitate. Răul cel mai mare al acestei vorbării este că e alcătuită din aluzii, citate din cei mai diverși, cei mai noi și cei mai vechi scriitori. Sunt citate cuvintele din Platon, Hegel, Darwin, despre care cei ce scriu n-au nici cea mai vagă idee, alături de cuvintelele unui Gorki, Andreev, Artabasev și alții, despre care nici nu merită să avem idee. În al doilea rând, această vorbărie e nociva fiindcă impuie mințile și nu lasă nici loc, nici timp liber pentru cunoașterea scriitorilor vechi, care au rezistat de mii de ani, nu doar de zece sau de-o sută."

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