- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.
- Almost
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- Nov 07, 2020
The age of the book is almost gone.
- Goethe
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
- Noise
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.
- Bitterness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020