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Barnett Newman (via Arthur Danto, introduction to Balzac's The Unknown Masterpiece)

I think a man spends his whole lifetime painting one picture or working on one piece of sculpture. The question of stopping is really a decision of moral considerations.

Martin Luther (Here I stand and can do nothing else. God help me.)

Hier stehe Ich und kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.

Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire, ending

Many had died. But not she, not he; not yet.

Lady Britomart, George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

After all, nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentleman.

Edmund Wilson, The Shores of Light

There are few things I enjoy so much as talking to people about books which I have read and they haven't.