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If we must suffer, it is better to create the world in which we suffer, and this is what heroes do spontaneously, artists do consciously, and all men do in their degree.

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Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

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The imagination should queen it over the mind, with reason as her obsequious butler and memory as her underpaid maid-of-all-work.

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To delight in possession is to allow the conceivability of dispossession.

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Criticism prevents art from forgetting, prevents it from sinking into conformity.

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Richard Ellman

Richard Ellman

Born: March 15, 1918
Died: May 13, 1987 (aged 69)
Bio: Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S.
Known for:
  1. James Joyce (1959)
  2. Oscar Wilde: Biographie (1987)
  3. Yeats: The Man And The Masks (1948)
  4. Four Dubliners (1987)
  5. The Norton anthology of modern poetry (1973)

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