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A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.

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Harold Bloom

. . . one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent.

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Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas
riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

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Shakespeare is universal.

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The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

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We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

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To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all.

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