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The Romanian Spirituality
français
 Romanitude
means in my opinion a vision on the world (Weltanschauung) characterized
by an acute sense of balance and moderation, justice and harmony in the
ethical, ethnical, aesthetic and social domains. From a philosophical
point of view, Romanitude is a vision altogether so lucid that it leads
the being to dismal self-censorship and to irony about all things and
beings to the point of destruction and dissolution of all (and this is
possibly prejudicial in the field of immanence). From an aesthetic point
of view (the most interesting perhaps), Romanitude is a completely new
vision of the world and of Art, exploring and exploiting all
possibilities as they are experienced by creators such as Brancusi,
Caragiale, Tzara, Ionesco, Cioran, Fondane (to name but a few), but
always with a counterweight on the balancing pole: an appeasing
tradition which re-places Man in the heart of his fellow men, in the
heart of Humanity.
 Romanitude is, I think, in an exponential way (magnified by the telescope
as it were), at the beginning of this new century, the sorely unrealized
aspiration of an age which has survived the most atrocious barbarities
of nonentity and which dreams of an appeasing, ever-resurgent humanism.
(Michel
WATTREMEZ, France-Thailand, 2000)
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