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Tommaso Marinetti on Our Most Dangerous Prevaricator

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The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?

Source: Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944), Italian playwright, founder of Futurism. repr. In Marinetti: Selected Writings, ed. R.W. Flint (1972). "We Abjure Our Symbolist Masters...," War, the World’s Only Hygiene (1911-1915).
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