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Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.
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Just at the age ‘twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
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Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.
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Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses–a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.
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Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literature.- John Moschitta
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Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer’s. For the sea is his; he owns it . . .
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
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Liberty is worth paying for . . . .
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Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order – never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request.
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Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or, to whom they are related.
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Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
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Literary Men are a perpetual priesthood.- Thomas Carlyle
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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.
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Literature becomes free institutions. It is the graceful ornament of civil liberty, and a happy restraint on the asperities which political controversies sometimes occasion.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Literature bores me, especially great literature.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely.
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Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art
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Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
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