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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human…
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy…
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There is no method except yourself.
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic…
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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
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We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors…
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history…
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes…
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days…
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your…
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss…
— Charles Babbage
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my…
— Halle Berry
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I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
— Halle Berry
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I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually…
— Jo Brand
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Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.
— Jeff Bridges
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
— Edmund Burke
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I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.
— Mariah Carey
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from…
— Lewis Carroll
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A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again,…
— Emile Durkheim
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage,…
— B. C. Forbes
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Far too many bodybuilders spend too much time exercising the smaller muscle groups such as the biceps at the expense of the…
— Unknown Author
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