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Literature is the question minus the answer. - Roland Barthes

Literature is the question minus the answer. – Roland Barthes

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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. – Roland Barthes

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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local caf? to the speech at a formal dinner. – Roland Barthes

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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! – James Russell Lowell

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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman

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The object of literature is to make man a wiser and happier being. The poet makes us happy because he tells us how we may become so. – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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Literature is news that stays news. – Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934

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