“The supremacy of the verbal over the monumental has something about it of the supremacy of life over death.”
Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter 8, p. 200
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Northrop Frye137
Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991Related quotes
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Original: O império supremo é o do Imperador que abdica de toda a vida normal, dos outros homens, em quem o cuidado da supremacia não pesa como um fardo de jóias.
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