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Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.
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continuity
masterpiece
maturation
vision
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.
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worship
continuity
discipleship
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Harold Bloom |
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"All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home."
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variety
continuity
familiarity
innovation
communication
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Harold Bloom |
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Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.
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continuity
innovation
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Harold Bloom |
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Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes
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reading
politics
continuity
timelessness
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Harold Bloom |
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The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.
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continuity
perspective
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Robert J. Allison |