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All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and abs ...
Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, i ...
We are led to Believe a Lie
When we see not Thro' the Eye
And yet, and yet ... Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are obvious acts of despera ...
The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaite ...
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to wha ...
Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of w ...
Oh when to apprize
Is to mesmerize,
To see fall down, the Column of Gold,
Into the commonest ash.
Rise.
Let us combine. There are no magics or elves
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When young people are too rigidly sequestered from [the world], their lively and romantic imaginations paint it to them as a parad ...
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