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“Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotiona soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Dostoevski is not a great writer, but a rather mediocre onewith flashes of excellent humor, but, alas, with wastelands of literary platitudes in between.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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