Sentence:  All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism : if man can neither know nor love reality as it is , he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of <WSD>purely</WSD> personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved . 
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