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The nineteenth century announced, dreamed, and promised; the twentieth century declared it would make man, here and now. / - Alain Badiou, The Century
The twentieth century did not exist. Humanity made a huge leap into the void from the theoretical presuppositions of the nineteenth century, through the failure of the twentieth century, to the dark beginning of the twenty-first century in August of 1945, with the atomic explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. / - José Revueltas, Dialéctica de la conciencia