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William Shakespeare
“It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in't.”
William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

Charles Baudelaire
“Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more pregnant, more insidious, more dazzling than a window lighted by a single candle. What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane. In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers.”
Charles Baudelaire

Anthony Burgess
“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.”
Anthony Burgess, Little Wilson and Big God

François de La Rochefoucauld
“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Lionel Trilling
“We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire’s, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, “It is later than you think.” But with us it is always a little too late for mind, yet never too late for honest stupidity; always a little too late for understanding, never too late for righteous, bewildered wrath; always too late for thought, never too late for naïve moralizing. We seem to like to condemn our finest but not our worst qualities by pitting them against the exigency of time.”
Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society

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