"The experience was an exciting one for me. It illustrated that writing was about risk—about risking everything. And t…"

"Even though you can destroy a man, destroying him does not make him cease to exist. On the contrary, if I can put it …"

"It is authority that provokes revolution....This occurs when a feeling of impunity takes root among the elite: We are…"

"(Has a book ever brought you closer to another person, or come between you?) A friend once called “The Shadow of the …"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"

"Dined at Gooden’s, where I met among others , the Secretary of the . He surprised me by saying that he knew Goethe on…"

"Lamb was the first English writer of eminence whom Crabb Robinson tried to convince of the excellence of Goethe."

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"Sunt potentes in praeliis, undiquaque debellant adversarios, nullumque penitus patiuntur iugum servitutis. Delectantu…"