Charm/literature

Famous quotes containing the words charm and/or literature:

“The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure—pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)