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Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such ...more

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Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.

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Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

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The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already... begun to be warped, had been subtly manoeuvred in a certain direction. Despair ...more

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In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We l...more

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The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop. The ...more

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To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.

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Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what...more

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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ...more