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Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Read the great books, gentlemen,” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
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I don't think there are actually any theologians practicing angelology or studying angels anymore, but it's definitely in a lot of religious… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
[ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
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Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting… — Stacey D'Erasmo Copy Share Image
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I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“She had thought of literature all these years (her seclusion, her rank, her sex must be her excuse) as something wild as… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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