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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

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History develops, art stands still.

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A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

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The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. I...more

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The historian records, but the novelist creates.

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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

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The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would ...more

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than w...more

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The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly...more

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that onl...more

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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

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How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

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How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only re...more

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The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism. And the only advice I would off...more

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we may say that History develops, Art stands still