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• If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

  George Steiner

  Men, Perception, Language

  George Steiner (2010). “No Passion Spent”, p.337, Faber & Faber

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• To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

  George Steiner

  Peace, War, Men

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• Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.

  George Steiner

  Western Culture, Three, Consciousness

  "In Bluebeard's Castle". Book by George Steiner, 1971.

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• To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness.

  George Steiner

  Children, Stories, Emptiness

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.219, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

  George Steiner

  Wall, Book, Winter

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• It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

  George Steiner

  Past, Literal

  George Steiner (1974). “In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture”, p.3, Yale University Press

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• Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

  George Steiner

  Imagination, House, Treasure

  George Steiner (1980). “The death of tragedy”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them.

  George Steiner

  Poetry, Identity, Naked

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• The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.

  George Steiner

  Ecstasy

  George Steiner (2010). “Grammars of Creation”, p.161, Faber & Faber

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

  George Steiner

  Impact, Media, Vision

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

  George Steiner

  Rewards, Students, Chairs

  "Il postino". Interview with Christopher Tayler, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2008.

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• I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.

  George Steiner

  Writing, Mean, Judging

  "Il postino". Interview with Christopher Tayler, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2008.

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• My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

  George Steiner

  Teacher, Writing, Hands

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• Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.

  George Steiner

  Incessant, Signals

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• Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.

  George Steiner

  Poetry, Use, Records

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