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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.The nineteenth century dislike of realism ...more

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The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being cha...more

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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with onesel...more

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things.    To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another ma...more

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The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been abl...more