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  1. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.
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  2. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.
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  3. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.
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  4. Voltaire

    If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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  5. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
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  6. Charlotte Brontë _ Shirley

    Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your great Bel, your fish-tailed Dagon, rises before me as a demon. You, and such as you, have raised him to a throne, put on him a crown, given him a sceptre. Behold how hideously he governs! See him busied at the work he likes best -- making marriages. He binds the young to the old, the strong to the imbecile. He stretches out the arm of Mezentius and fetters the dead to the living. In his realm there is hatred -- secret hatred: there is disgust -- unspoken disgust: there is treachery -- family treachery: there is vice -- deep, deadly, domestic vice. In his dominions, children grow unloving between parents who have never loved: infants are nursed on deception from their very birth: they are reared in an atmosphere corrupt with lies ... All that surrounds him hastens to decay: all declines and degenerates under his sceptre. god is a masked Death."
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  7. Chris Hedges _ Losing Moses on the Freeway:

    The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces that save us from idolatry. The more we listen to ourselves, the more we create God in our own image until God becomes a tawdry idol that looks and speaks like us. The power of the commandments is found not in the writings of theologians, although I read and admire some, but in the pathos of human life, including lives that are very unlike our own. All states and nations work to pervert religions into civic religions, ones where the goals of the state become the goals of the divine. This is increasingly true in the United States. But once we believe we understand the will of God and can act as agents of God we become dangerous, a menace to others and a menace to ourselves. We forget that we do not understand. We forget to listen.
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  8. Pearl S. Buck _ The Good Earth

    The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.
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  9. Joseph Conrad _ The Secret Agent

    No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusionsabout himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when ourappointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception.
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  10. George Eliot _ Silas Marner

    mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. He had seemed to love it little in the years when every penny had its purpose for him; for he loved the purpose then. But now, when all purpose was gone, that habit of looking towards the money and grasping it with a sense of fulfilled effort made a loam that was deep enough for the seeds of desire.
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  11. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.
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  12. Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of

    The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.
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