“ Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. ”
- Guy Davenport- Copy
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“ We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. ”
- George Steiner- Copy
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“ Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx… ”
- Leon Trotsky- Copy
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“ But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money — booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence… ”
- William H. Murray- Copy
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