Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
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The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
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The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology--the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.
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Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.
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A man could be a lover and defender of wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. I may never get there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope: without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.
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