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• Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that…
• Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
• In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
• Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which,…
• What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
• Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
• The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
• Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
• There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
• Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
• If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but…
• At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and…

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