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All literature is political.
All literature is political.
Literature is the immortality of speech.
Literature is the immortality of speech.
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean
The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.
The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their read more
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges
the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges
the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
