- 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
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.
- Frustration
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- Nov 07, 2020