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Thursday, November 4, 2010

T.S. Eliot on Shakespeare

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of oneself...I do not believe that any writer has exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare. - T.S. Eliot

1 comment:

  1. It is touching, heart-breaking, frustrating, and endless. How obvious in politics - now amplified by billions.

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