"Unlike the sale of a commodity, the giving of a gift tends to establish a relationship between the parties involved. When gifts circulate within a group, their commerce leaves a series of interconnected relationships in its wake, and a kind of decentralized cohesiveness emerges."

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Source : Lewis Hyde (2009). “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, p.20, Vintage

Lewis Hyde

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“Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.”
“Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.”
“You know, it is very clear that the Israelis, they don't want this plan and they don't agree.”
“Democracy in Iraq will be an example that the Arab population will look to with great interest. And some Arab governments are concerned about democracy in Iraq, not because Iraq will be an aggressive state against them, but rather by the example that will be set by a successful federal democratic state in Iraq.”
“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms.”
“Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification, but rather are practiced to beget most foolish questions, are to be deprived of the communion of the Church.”

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