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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…
• Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value…
• The age of the book is almost gone.
• To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of…
• He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries…

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