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Hermann Hesse
“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
Herman Hesse

Aristotle
“There is no great genius without a mixture of madness”
Aristotle

Dorothy M. Richardson
“If the stars are sublime, why should the earth be therefore petty? It is part of a sublime system. If the earth is to be called petty, then the stars must be called petty too. They may not even be inhabited. Perhaps they mean the movement of the vast system going on for ever, while men die. The indestructibility of matter. But if matter is indestructible, it is not what the people who use the phrase mean by matter. If matter is not conscious, man is more than matter. If a small, no matter how small, conscious thing is called petty in comparison with big, no matter how big, unconscious things, everything is made a question of size, which is absurd....”
Dorothy M. Richardson

William Gaddis
“What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.”
William Gaddis, The Recognitions

William T. Vollmann
“Generally speaking, the deader the author, the more worthwhile the work.”
William T. Vollmann

152644 2015: The Year of Reading Women — 675 members — last activity Apr 01, 2020 04:01AM
Join us for a year of member-run group reads to make 2015 the year of reading women! Rules Members are free to create author threads by surname if th ...more
123688 Cambridge Library Online Bookclub — 26 members — last activity Oct 12, 2015 07:12AM
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