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Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.
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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
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