"Lucretius's one poetic flaw is his tendentiousness, a quality of overpersuasion he shares with Sigmund Freud." -138
"All cultural past actually was at the erudite sage's back, but he denies that history existed. There was only biography." -209
"Eternity is only an abstraction from the actual present. Infinity is
only a great reservoir of recollection, or a reservoir of aspiration:
man-made." -265
"...the American Religion, our strange fusion of Gnosticism, Orphism, and Self-Reliance." -293
"There
is no way out of the labyrinth of literary influence once you reach the
point where it starts reading you more fully than you can encompass
other imaginations. That labyrinth is life itself. I cannot finish this
book because I hope to go on reading and seeking the blessing of more
life." -335
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