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"There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses."

Josef Skvorecky, Czechoslovakian Writer
Age, Perfection
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"There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses."

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"There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses."
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"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."

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"The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does."

Lascelles Abercrombie, British Poet
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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."

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"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline."

James Truslow Adams, American Historian
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"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer
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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher
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"By Time and Age full many things are taught."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet
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