Literature Quotes - Page 67

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

A louse in the locks of literature.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Never find fault with the absent.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.

the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.