The age of the book is almost gone.
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To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.George Steiner
Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
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Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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