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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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