There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.
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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad.
People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad.
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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.
