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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher
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"Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."

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"The limit of every pain is an even greater pain."
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"To act is to anchor in the imminent future."
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"For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."
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"Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?"
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"God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays."
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"Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off."
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"I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers."
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"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
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"There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep."

Herman Melville, American Novelist
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"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist
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"A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer
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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer
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"But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages."

Edmond About, French Novelist
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"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."

Joseph Addison, English Writer
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"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."

Joseph Addison, English Writer
Criticism, Defense, Obscurity
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"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher
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"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."

Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician
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"Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise."

Mary Kay Ash, American Businessman
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