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“ If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal. ”

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Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

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...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

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... Now to die of griefwould mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomersare unwelcome, particularly in the future. ...

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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