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"etymology_text": "From the book The Sickness Unto Death (1849) by Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855).",
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"ref": "1987 September 13, Donal Henahan, “Music View: Our Orchestras are Splintering”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-19",
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"ref": "1993 December 1, Brian Appleyard, “Censorship is a dirty word, but unrelentingly violent films have made it a necessary evil”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2015-07-19",
"text": "These films . . . are evidence of a deep cultural malaise. The need to make them and the desire to consume them are symptoms of a contemporary sickness unto death.",
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"ref": "2007, Frederick Turner, Culture of Hope: A New Birth of the Classical Spirit, page 1",
"text": "[O]ur \"high\" or \"academic\" or \"avant-garde\" culture is in a state of crisis. This crisis is not a healthy one, but a sickness unto death, a decadence that threatens to destroy our society.",
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