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"Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change."
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"No matter how disappointing you believe your life currently is, it is never too late to start reshaping it to become an amazing testimony."

"Things don't only change, they also change you; sometimes for good, sometimes not."

"Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires."

"The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will."

"One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution."

"When we don't fear change, stress disappears. When we accept change, fear disappears."
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"Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin."

"In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read."

"In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary."

"Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies."

"What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude."

"What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era."

"What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering."

"If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people."
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