"In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable."
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"Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid."
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"From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today's literature is, for instance, largely destructive."
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"The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer."
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"Love is always being given where it is not required."
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"Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing."
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"The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration."
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"The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone."
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"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."
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"Whoever is new to power is always harsh."
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"No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand."
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"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
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"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."
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"Every novel is a debtor to Homer."
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"Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation."
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"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."
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"Literature is my Utopia"
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"Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted."
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"Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing."
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"In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking."
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