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1. "It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history—and from now on there will be two distinct historical cultures running side by side without ever really fusing—that people who have been brought up on the conventional version of history and know all about the Robespierrist Terror during the Great French Revolution, should find it an unfamiliar fact that the Terror of the government of Thiers executed, imprisoned or exiled more people—the number has been estimated at a hundred thousand—in that one week of the suppression of the [Paris] Commune [of 1871] than the revolutionary Terror of Robespierre had done in three years." ~ Edmund Wilson
2. "...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time." ~ Edmund Wilson
3. "While the romantic individualist deludes himself with unrealizable fantasies, in the attempt to evade bourgeois society, and only succeeds in destroying himself, he lets humanity fall a victim to the industrial-commercial processes, which, unimpeded by his dreaming, go on with their deadly work." ~ Edmund Wilson
4. "He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand." ~ Edmund Wilson
5. "If I could only keep up my spirit- if I could only play the game according to the sportsman's code which Rita had been trying to teach me so gravely and so sweetly- if I could only, I told myself, do that, then in the long run, all might be right between us- because I had not nagged her or wearied her, because I had proved myself her peer, as prompt to offer all for love and as brave to bear its passing. If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart, the fires which keep the poet alive as the citizen never lives, but which burn all the roofs of security!" ~ Edmund Wilson
6. "No hay dos personas que lean el mismo libro." ~ Edmund Wilson
7. "No two persons ever read the same book." ~ Edmund Wilson
8. "His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship." ~ Edmund Wilson
9. "I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind." ~ Edmund Wilson
10. "Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals." ~ Edmund Wilson
11. "Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine." ~ Edmund Wilson
12. "The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination." ~ Edmund Wilson

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