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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books
To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude.
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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books
Shakespeare will not make us better and will not make us worse, but he may allow us to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves.
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Frank Herbert _ Dune
You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.
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Frank Herbert _ Dune
When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.
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Frank Herbert _ Dune
What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
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Barbara W. Tuchman _ The March of Folly: From Troy
Folly is a child of power.
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Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of
One aristocratic leader's club was known for, "an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading, dozing, and meditation took precedence over conversation.
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Robert Kurson _ Pirate Hunters: Treasure,
Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.
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