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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art…
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We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak…
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation…
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
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Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time…
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular…
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Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and…
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Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but…
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I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all…
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The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
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We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are…
— Art Buchwald
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Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of…
— Maya Angelou
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It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no…
— Stephen Charnock
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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
— Oswald Chambers
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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is , which makes him do the sin he does…
— George MacDonald
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
— William Cobbett
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At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The…
— Maria Montessori
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Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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