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    You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and read more

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself read more

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

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Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

by Roland Barthes Found in: Literature Quotes,
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A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.

A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.

by Albert Camus Found in: Literature Quotes,
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges
the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges
the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

by Isaac D'israeli Found in: Literature Quotes,
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Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, read more

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

by Charles Churchill Found in: Literature Quotes,
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I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was read more

I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.

by Joseph Conrad Found in: Literature Quotes,
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Perish those who said our good things before we did.

Perish those who said our good things before we did.

by Donatus Found in: Literature Quotes,
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