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"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."
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"I'm a nudist at heart."
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"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"
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"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
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"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"
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"The ear is the avenue to the heart."
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"Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text."
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"The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds."
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"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe."
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"The most valuable thing you own is your heart. Guard it well."
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"Now mine eyes see the heart that once we did search for, and I fear this heart shall be mended, nevermore."
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"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."
Vision
"Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life."
Life
"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."
Genius
"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."
Life
"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."
Work
"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."
Heart
"To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war."
Peace
"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."
Language
"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."
Man
"The age of the book is almost gone."
Age
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