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I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victo ...
Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and ...
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man ...
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of wh ...
A good aphorism is too hard for the teeth of time and is not eaten up by all the centuries, even though it serves as food for ever ...
Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He woul ...
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious exp ...
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.
Have you learned the alphabet of heaven and can count three? Do you know the number of God's family? Can you put mysteries into wo ...
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