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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this ...more

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What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other.

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Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anythin...more

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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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The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

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The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of o...more

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In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

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The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whethe...more

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The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reas...more

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You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind ...more

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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.