The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
EZRA POUNDA great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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