#literature

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Get close to grass and you’ll see a star. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The farther away, the closer the home becomes. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Rizal" is a compulsory course in school, but few teachers make Rizal's novels interesting. If students are taught to enjoy Rizal's works as literature instead of as a lodemine of 'patriotic' allusions I am sure they would not mind reading and rereading the 'Noli me Tangere'. ↗

— Ambeth R. Ocampo

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