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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…
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves…
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The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value…
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind…
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
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The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying…
— Francis William Bourdillon
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In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.
— Anthony Burgess
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The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.
— Henry Miller
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Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
— George Steiner
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In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted…
— Louis de Bernieres
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The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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