"When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page."

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George Steiner

#Pages Quotes #Citing Quotes #Classic Quotes

“Collective madness is called sanity ..”
“You must follow Jesus for yourself, but you canâ€™t follow Him by yourself.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
“If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?”
“I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.”
“Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.”

Source : Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.8, Penguin
“That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's imagery.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.20, New Directions Publishing
“war makes strangers bedfellows ...”

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