"The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's own growing inner self. . . . The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's confrontation with one's own mortality."

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Source : Harold Bloom (2014). “The Western Canon”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harold Bloom

#Education Quotes #Reality Quotes #Self Quotes

“It has been said that a friend is somebody with whom it is possible to be silent.”

Source : Robert Evans (2006). “The Kid Stays in the Picture”, p.282, Phoenix Books, Inc.
“I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.”
“Hurry up and learn patience.”

Source : "Type A's, hurry up and learn patience! Here's how" by Jennifer Nelson, www.today.com. June 16, 2011.
“I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.”
“As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.”
“I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours.”
“Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.”
“The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent.”

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