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For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.

— George Steiner Real Presences (1989)

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Compared to Homeric or even to medieval times, modern man inhabits the physical world like a rapacious stranger.

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Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

The Death of Tragedy (1961)

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity do not easily resume life.

Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

Real Presences (1989)

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

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