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  1. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.
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  2. Gustave Flaubert _ Bouvard and Pecuchet

    In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. 'I don't want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don't see what use he is.
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  3. gustave flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    How oft the warmth of the sun aboveMakes a pretty young girl dream of love.
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  4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Brothers Karamazov

    I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.
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  5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ The Idiot

    We've already had , the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of humanity, to say nothing of his conceit; for, wound the vanity of any one of these numerous friends of humanity, and he's ready to set fire to the world out of petty revenge-like all the rest of us, though, in that, to be fair; like myself, vilest of all, for I might well be the first to bring the fuel and run away myself.
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  6. Robert Hughes _ The Shock of the New

    What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.
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  7. Ron Chernow _ Alexander Hamilton

    He wondered why he cared so desperately about the fate of his adopted country and others seemingly so little. "To see the character of the government and the country so sported with, exposed to so indelible a blot, puts my heart to the torture. Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American ground? Or what is it that thus torments me at a circumstance so calmly viewed by almost everybody else? Am I a fool, a romantic Quixote, or is there a constitutional defect in the American mind? Were it not for yourself and a few others, I . . . would say . . . there is something in our climate which belittles every animal, human or brute. . . . I disclose to you without reserve the state of my mind. It is discontented and gloomy in the extreme. I consider the cause of good government as having been put to an issue and the verdict against it.
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  8. Donna Tartt _ The Secret History

    Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they've been duped by the same pair of eyes.
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  9. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people."
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  10. Thomas Pynchon _ Bleeding Edge

    Times of great idealism carry equal chances for greater corruptibility.
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  11. Thomas Pynchon _ Bleeding Edge

    You had to been there, kid. Everybody thinks now the Eisenhower years were so quaint and cute and boring, but all that had a price, just underneath was the pure terror. Midnight forever. If you stopped even for a minute to think, there it was and you could fall into it so easily. Some fell. Some went nuts, some even took their own lives.
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  12. Edith Wharton _ The House of Mirth

    Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
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