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“Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.”
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“All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.”
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“The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”
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“It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”
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“The sage returns her inner nature to its beginnings and guides her spirit to the realm of the void. She follows the supreme teachings of the limitless and lives in a state of complete emptiness. The ordinary person, however, lives in a world consisting of rules and regulations that are designed to constrain her inner nature. Her thoughts are filled with anxiety, and her senses are fatigued by constant excitement. She promotes pettiness in the name of benevolence, integrity, and culture so that she can display her skills and gain fame and recognition.”
― Being Taoist: Wisdom for Living a Balanced Life
― Being Taoist: Wisdom for Living a Balanced Life
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