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• It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each…
• The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…
• To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
• The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves…
• The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
• The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly…
• If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of…
• Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value…
• To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind…
• The age of the book is almost gone.
• The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
• Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

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