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Quotes from Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature — Erich Auerbach

1892–1957 Germany

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In the Old Testament stories, … the sublime influence of God here reaches so deeply into the everyday that the two realms of the sublime and the everyday are not only actually unseparated but basically inseparable.

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946)

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