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Famous quotes containing the words bernard, final and/or years:

    Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one’s own growing inner self.... The mind’s dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one’s own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one’s confrontation with one’s own mortality.
    Harold Bloom (b. 1930)

    He sighed with relief. He had got the job. He was safe.
    Putting on his gown, he prepared for the long years to come....
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)