Literature is language charged with meaning — Ezra Pound
Literature is language charged with meaning — Ezra Pound
Literature is language charged with meaning — Ezra Pound
Literature is language charged with meaning — Ezra Pound
Literature is language charged with meaning — Ezra Pound
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Literature is language charged with meaning

— Ezra Pound
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So that while others may look on the laws of physics as legislation and God as a human form with beard measured in light — Thomas Pynchon, V.
Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose — Jean-Paul Sartre
Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions? — Franz Kafka, The Trial
Every novel says to the reader: “Things are not as simple as you think.” That is the novel’s eternal truth, but it grows — Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
Even at a time like this, the street is bright enough and filled with people coming and going—people with places to go a — Haruki Murakami, After Dark
Knowing that it is the earth we tread, we learn to tread carefully, lest it be rent open. Realizing that it is the heave — Sōseki Natsume, The Three-Cornered World
I've been mistaken to assume that in this little village in the spring, so like a dream or a poem, life is a matter only — Sōseki Natsume, The Three-Cornered World
To him, they looked like shadows that his wife had left behind. Size 7 shadows of his wife hung there in long rows, laye — Haruki Murakami, Tony Takitani
The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which r — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
Novels by serious writers of genius often eventually become best-sellers, but most contemporary best-sellers are written — Leonard Woolf
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Shout the truth, if you want to degoogle the google.” Says Bhutta — M.K. Bhutta