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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is, at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures.
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties.
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The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
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Harold Bloom
Born:
July 11, 1930
Died:
October 14, 2019
(aged 89)
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