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The personal truculence Malaparte advocates is far from the mass hysteria of Fascism. "Learn from the Tuscans," he writes, "how to spit in the face of the mighty, in the face of kings, emperors, bishops, inquisitors, judges, masters. Learn from the Tuscans that there is nothing sacred in this world except the human itself, and that one human's soul is worth precisely that of another's: and that it is only necessary to know how to keep the soul clean, in a cool dry place, that it gather neither dust nor humidity. Woe unto him who tries to dirty that soul, or humiliate it, or butter it up, or bless it, mortgage it, rent it, buy it."