"Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time."

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Source : James Kenneth Stephen (1909). “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”

James Kenneth Stephen

#Sublime Quotes #Republic Quotes #West Quotes

“I love children. I've always loved children.”
“Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.”
“Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.”
“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”
“There is no reality except the one contained within us.”

Source : "Nobel Prize Library: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse".
“To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.”
“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.121, A&C Black
“The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.”

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