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All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

George Henry Lewes

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George Henry Lewes
Age: 61 †
Born: 1817
Born: April 18
Died: 1878
Died: November 30
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Theatre Critic
Writer
London
England
Rests
Primarily
Insight
Literature
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Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
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Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.
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Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
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The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
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Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.
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The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.
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Science is not addressed to poets.
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Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.
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The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of placing before the reader intelligible symbols of the thoughts and feelings in the writer's mind.
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The history of the race is but that of the individual writ large.
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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
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To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight.
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I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.
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The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.
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In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
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A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.
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To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.
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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.
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