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bohemian
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    He observed that society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,— those who attack it and those who guard it; he had no choice except between these two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable foundation of rigidity, regularity, and probity, complicated with an inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung.†  (source)
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    At the age of 36, he left behind his business and moved to Chicago, becoming one of the rebellious writers and cultural bohemians in the group that has since come to be called the "Chicago Renaissance."†  (source)
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    I guess they're what's termed bohemians.†  (source)
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    Stella was a headstrong woman with bohemian tastes and driving artistic ambitions, for both herself and her kin; she self-published a literary journal, theRuess Quartette, the cover of which was emblazoned with the family maxim: "Glorify the hour."†  (source)
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    Interminable lines of people streamed by to shake my hand, cars blocked all the cemetery gates, and a hodgepodge of delegations—poor people, students, labor unionists, nuns, mongoloid children, bohemians, and spiritualists—came to pay her their respects.†  (source)
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    That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemianism.†  (source)
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    She dressed in bohemian clothes, penned novels, painted, and yearned to roam forgotten corners of the world.†  (source)
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    That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, vagabonds of the cross-roads, those who sleep at night in a desert of houses with no other roof than the cold clouds of heaven, those who, each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to revolt.†  (source)
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    And Miss Lavish, though unwilling to ally him, felt bound to support the cause of Bohemianism.†  (source)
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    Supposed to look bohemian, she supposed.†  (source)
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    Down with Bohemianism, the sin of Mayakovsky.†  (source)
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    I mean do you have to be a goddam bohemian type, or dead, for Chrissake, to be a real poet?†  (source)
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    He appeared to have the same independence of thought, the same bohemianism, but he had an infinitely more vivacious temperament; his mind was coarser, and he had not that interest in the abstract which made Cronshaw's conversation so captivating.†  (source)
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