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“Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.”
“Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".”
“The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.”
“Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.”
“Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.”
“Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.”
“Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.”
“The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.”
“Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.”
“King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.”
“We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice.”