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Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

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Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".

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Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

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The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.

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Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

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Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.

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Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

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It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.