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Literature is the immortality of speech.
Literature is the immortality of speech.
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.
You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to read more
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he read more
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.
In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.
In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others.
Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry.
Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry.
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
