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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he read more
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still! - Destruction of Sennacherib, The.
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
