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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

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The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would ...more

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than w...more

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In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

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How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only re...more

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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.