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Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it.

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The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

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Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self.

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A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality

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Originality must compound with inheritance.

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Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.