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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
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literature
freedom
fear
intellectual-freedom
hypocrisy
perversion
puritanism
sterility
censorship
evil
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Anaïs Nin |
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...Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed, a gigantic panorama of eternal change. Puritanism, on the other hand, rests on a fixed and immovable conception of life; it is based on the Calvinistic idea that life is a curse, imposed upon man by the wrath of God. In order to redeem himself man must do constant penance, must repudiate every natural and healthy impulse, and turn his back on joy and beauty. Puritanism celebrated its reign of terror in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, destroying and crushing every manifestation of art and culture. It was the spirit of Puritanism which robbed Shelley of his children, because he would not bow to the dicta of religion. It was the same narrow spirit which alienated Byron from his native land, because that great genius rebelled against the monotony, dullness, and pettiness of his country. It was Puritanism, too, that forced some of England's freest women into the conventional lie of marriage: Mary Wollstonecraft and, later, George Eliot. And recently Puritanism has demanded another toll--the life of Oscar Wilde. In fact, Puritanism has never ceased to be the most pernicious factor in the domain of John Bull, acting as censor of the artistic expression of his people, and stamping its approval only on the dullness of middle-class respectability.
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Emma Goldman |
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Trying to imagine , who found indecorous, at a London performance of --to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported --who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.
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lenny-bruce
nathaniel-hawthorne
puritanism
norms
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David Markson |
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The sectarian divisions which plagued Marxism are manifestations of an urge for purity which the Left would be better off without.
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unity
sectarianism
marxism
purity
puritanism
patriotism
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Richard M. Rorty |
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Vosotros los jovenes no sabeis apreciar las cosas, proseguia. No sabeis lo que hemos tenido que pasar para lograr que esteis donde estais. Miralo, es el quien pela las zanahorias. ?Sabeis cuantas vidas de mujeres, cuantos cuerpos de mujeres han tenido que arrollar los tanques para llegar a esta situacion? La cocina es mi pasatiempo predilecto, decia Luke. Disfruto cocinando. Un pasatiempo muy original, replicaba mi madre. No tienes por que darme explicaciones. En otros tiempos no te habrian permitido tener semejante pasatiempo, te habrian llamado marica. Vamos, madre, le decia yo. No discutamos por tonterias. Tonterias, repetia amargamente. Las llamas tonterias. Veo que no entiendes. No entiendes nada de lo que estoy diciendo.
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human-rights
puritanismo
women-rights
totalitarism
totalitarismo
feminismo
puritanism
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Margaret Atwood |
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Elizabeth knew it was a fast day, but the rumbling in her belly was harder to ignore than the grumbling of the preacher.
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puritanism
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Anya Seton |