“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
