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“I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.”

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Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel, born in 1948, is a renowned writer from Argentina. His works span various literary forms, including novels, essays, and translations, and are known for their unique style and profound insights into human culture. more

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“I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.”

Giving Mind Has Beens Reason Mother Certain Happened Birth Understood Justify Attachment Thankfulness Could Have Been

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“In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.”

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“It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now there's still this idea that the reader doesn't take part in the social game and in politics, the res publica, but for other reasons: he doesn't do it because he's not making any money.”

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“We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.”

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“The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.”

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“That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.”

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Book:The Works of Walter Pater: Essays from 'The Guardian.'

Source: The Works of Walter Pater: Essays from 'The Guardian.'

“The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.”

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“To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.”

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“The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.”

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“Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.”

May Ideas Philosophy Helping Might Views Theory Criticism Philosophical Instruments Point Of View

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