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Book: The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime
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  1. Harold Bloom _ The Daemon Knows: Literary

    You get too much at last of everything: of sunsets, of cabbages, of love.
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  2. Harold Bloom _ The Daemon Knows: Literary

    American Religionists, when I questioned them, frequently said that falling in love was affirming again Christ's love for each of them.
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  3. Harold Bloom _ The Daemon Knows: Literary

    The James family, raised by their Emersonian father, accepted their heritage, with reservations by Henry yet fewer by William.
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  4. Harold Bloom _ The Daemon Knows: Literary

    Oscar Wilde's "beautiful untrue things" that save the imagination from falling into "careless habits of accuracy.
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  5. Harold Bloom _ The Daemon Knows: Literary

    seeking comfort through continuity, as grand voices somehow hold off the permanent darkness that gathers though it does not fall.
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  6. Harold Bloom _ The Daemon Knows: Literary

    Karl Marx is irrelevant to many millions of them because, in America, religion is the poetry of the people and not their opiate.
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  7. Harold Bloom _ The Daemon Knows: Literary

    Denying Ahab greatness is an aesthetic blunder: He is akin to Achilles, Odysseus, and King David in one register, and to Don Quixote, Hamlet, and the High Romantic Prometheus of Goethe and Shelley in another. Call the first mode a transcendent heroism and the second the persistence of vision. Both ways are antithetical to nature and protest against our mortality. The epic hero will never submit or yield.
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  8. Harold Bloom _ The Daemon Knows: Literary

    At eighty-four, I can only write the way I go on teaching, personally and passionately.
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