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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…
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
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In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
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Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas to which,…
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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
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Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
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If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but…
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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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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Challenges arise to make us aware of our inner purpose.
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We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them
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DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops
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To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate…
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Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to…
— Magdalena Abakanowicz
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I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to…
— Elizabeth Catlett
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Day and night gifts keep pelting down on us. If we were aware of this, gratefulness would overwhelm us. But we go…
— David Steindl-Rast
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The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But…
— Jerry Bridges
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My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying…
— Barry Lopez
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The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high…
— Lionel Trilling
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