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Quotes from In Bluebeard's Castle — George Steiner

1929–2020 United States

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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

In Bluebeard's Castle (1971)

A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.

In Bluebeard's Castle (1971)

When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation — albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware — of its own best hopes.

In Bluebeard's Castle (1971)

Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich. No canvases came off museum walls as the butchers strolled reverently past, guide-books in hand.

In Bluebeard's Castle (1971)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Steiner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.