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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

~George Saintsbury

Topics: Absence Any Best Call Classical Comparative European Facts Fiction Great History Intelligible Known Languages Least Literary Literature Name Prose Rate Two Western

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The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

~George Saunders

Topics: Absence Beloved Constant Culture Details Exaltation Fear Human Hunger Kindness Laws Local Love Merely Naturally Need Periodic Predictable Reliable Rises Universal Up

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

~Gerald Jampolsky

Topics: Absence Ask Comparison Expansion Extension Fear Love Love Is Measurement Natural Natural State Questions State Total

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