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“Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of grasping its sensations and perceptions. To quarrel on its behalf is always a blunder.”
― Harold Bloom

tags: aesthetic, canon, literature

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“In any human endeavor, some fraction of its practitioners will be motivated to pursue that activity with such concentrated focus and unalloyed passion that it will consume them utterly.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

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“But the important lesson which he taught me was that if one would be happy he must not raise his head above his neighbor’s. “He who raises his head above the heads of others,” Mr. Kung said, “will sooner or later be decapitated.”
― Pearl S. Buck, My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

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“A lie is still a lie
even if it’s disguised
as the truth.”
― Sherman Kennon, Chase The Wind: A Book Of Poetry

tags: inspirational, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, life-lessons, poem, poet, poetry, poetry-quotes, sherman-kennon, truth

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“Being feared and not hated go well together, and the prince can always do this if he does not touch the property or the women of his citizens and subjects.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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