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  1. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    The tragic sense of life in Don Quixote is also the faith of Moby Dick. Ahab is a monomaniac; so is the kindlier Quixote, but both are tormented idealists who seek justice in human terms, not as theocentric men but as ungodly, godlike men.
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  2. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.
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  3. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    No one dies halfway through the last act. – Heinrich Ibsen
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  4. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    For Ibsen, gusto forgives almost everything.
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  5. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation.
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  6. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.
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  7. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation.
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  8. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden
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  9. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    The inventor knows HOW to borrow.
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  10. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.
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  11. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. Her mind consumed all impediments.
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  12. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.
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