"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."
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"There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy."
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"Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath."
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"Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not."
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"One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read."
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"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."
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"Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature."
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"There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow."
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"The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque."
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"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
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"Civilization is the making of civil persons."
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"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
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"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute."
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"There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object."
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"Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control."
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"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something."
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"While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious."
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"A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one."
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"It's the good loser who finally loses out."
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"Hunger is insolent, and will be fed."
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