George Steiner's Quote - We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that h

Quote by George Steiner

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that h

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his days work at Auschwitz in the morning. – George Steiner

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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. – George Steiner

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