National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.
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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
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Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
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It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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