“Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.”
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.