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Literary Theorist Inspirational Quotes (748)

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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.
David Lodge
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The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
Terry Eagleton
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The Text is not a definitive object.
Roland Barthes
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
Denis Diderot
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
Denis Diderot
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I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.
Novalis
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe
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We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'
Jonathan Gottschall
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The world must be romanticized. In this way the originary meaning may be found again.
Novalis
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Novalis
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True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am but why will you say that I am mad?
Edgar Allan Poe
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...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore
Edgar Allan Poe
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
Denis Diderot
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I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).
Roland Barthes
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Only the bad man is alone.
Denis Diderot
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Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.
Terry Eagleton
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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
Novalis
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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious and the more education, the less religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement but self-ful lment. At the core of his identity ..lies nothing but unconditional love.
Terry Eagleton
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Nothing in human life is inherently private.
Terry Eagleton
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Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.
Roland Barthes
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Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.
Terry Eagleton
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