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Lewis Hyde has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it…
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But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them…
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We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born…
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The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then…
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All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power,…
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For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the…
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Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved. When gifts…
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What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish…
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As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they…
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An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what…
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The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
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The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the…
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