Roberto Calasso Quotes

#1. Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes.

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#2. Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

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#3. As the Greeks see it, elegance arises from excavation, from the cavity.

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#4. ardor which is tapas; the name Indra

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#5. The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.

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#6. Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

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#7. Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.

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#8. Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

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#9. We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself.

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#10. The gods are fugitive guests of literature.

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