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“I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.”

Knows Giving Sometimes Dream Courses Literature Know How Mankind Birth Despair Depression Crisis Deeper Immortality Enjoyment Relative Plunge

Book:Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”

Should Humans Literature Nature Wonder Fire Human Nature Birth Creatures Findings Pity Heroic Electric Heroism Pearls Rubbish

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.”

Ifs Writing Ideas Feelings Literature Birth Oneself Catching

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.”

Men Giving Writing Children Art Poetry Literature Birth Red Pregnancy Pregnant Pregnant Women

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.”

Moments Death Literature Fire Dying Birth Waste

Author:Edward Young

“Wherein lies a poet's claim to originality? That he invents his incidents? No. That he was present when his episodes had their birth? No. That he was first to repeat them? No. None of these things has any value. He confers on them their only originality that has any value, and that is his way of telling them." Mark Twain "...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.”

People Way Firsts Lying Values Literature Lines Written Poet Birth Claims Mark Chiefs Characteristics Repeats Originality Episodes Incidents

Author:Edith Wharton

“The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.”

Literature Birth Hunger Reasonable Remedy Birth Control

Author:Friedrich Durrenmatt