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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…
• We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.
• A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak…
• The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation…
• Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
• Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time…
• The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular…
• Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and…
• Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but…
• I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all…
• The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
• We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.

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