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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the read more
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
History is past politics; and politics present history.
History is past politics; and politics present history.
Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked read more
Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. - Pensees d'Aout.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
History knows no resting place and no plateaus.
History knows no resting place and no plateaus.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.
Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted
with an eye and a soul.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
