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Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages;...
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements (as well as one’s deepest...
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Not going home is already like death.
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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything...
Quote #11865
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect,...
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was...
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In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart...
Quote #4445
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
Quote #5551
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself...
Quote #21969
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became...