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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.The nineteenth century dislike of realism ...more

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any ...more

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read

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The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthu...more

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

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I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say.

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it...more

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one ...more

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Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one’s own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influenc...more

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things.    To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another ma...more