Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal processโโwhich is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.
Lytton StracheyEnglish dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.
Lytton StracheyIn pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
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