Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity
Interpretation
Literature offers endless possibilities and reflections, as each book contributes to a limitless exploration of ideas and themes.
Bertrand Russellβs quote suggests that literature is a boundless realm, where each book serves as a tribute to the infinite ideas and experiences it can convey. This highlights the richness and depth of literary exploration, emphasizing that every new book opens up new dimensions of thought, creativity, and understanding.
In practice
In a discussion about the importance of reading, this quote can remind listeners of the endless opportunities literature presents.
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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