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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “Falstaff something roughly similar – a gentleman sinking into mire – but darker and deeper: a debauched genius; a fathomlessly cynical, almost irresistible confidence man; a diseased, cowardly, seductive, lovable monster; a father who cannot be trusted.”

51. “Falstaff something roughly similar – a gentleman sinking into mire – but darker and deeper: a debauched genius; a fathomlessly cynical, almost irresistible confidence man; a diseased, cowardly, seductive, lovable monster; a father who cannot be trusted.”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that’s attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.”

52. “The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that’s attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “What is honour? A word. What is in that word “honour”?”

53. “What is honour? A word. What is in that word “honour”?”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “But I never listen to music while I’m writing.”

54. “But I never listen to music while I’m writing.”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure – an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation – characterizes Montaigne’s restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes’s chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo’s depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo’s sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio’s loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ’s feet.”

55. “A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure – an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation – characterizes Montaigne’s restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes’s chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo’s depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo’s sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio’s loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ’s feet.”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound?”

56. “No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound?”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “The key point, as Epicurus’ disciple Lucretius wrote in verses of unrivalled beauty, was to abandon the anxious and doomed attempt to build higher and higher walls and to turn instead toward the cultivation of pleasure.”

57. “The key point, as Epicurus’ disciple Lucretius wrote in verses of unrivalled beauty, was to abandon the anxious and doomed attempt to build higher and higher walls and to turn instead toward the cultivation of pleasure.”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “The group shared a combination of extreme marginality and arrogant snobbishness.”

58. “The group shared a combination of extreme marginality and arrogant snobbishness.”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “What is that “honour”? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it?”

59. “What is that “honour”? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it?”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “He that died o’Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. ‘Tis insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I’ll none of it.”

60. “He that died o’Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. ‘Tis insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I’ll none of it.”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “We are terrified of future catastrophes and are thrown into a continuous state of misery and anxiety, and for fear of becoming miserable, we never cease to be so, always panting for riches and never giving our souls or our bodies a moment’s peace. But those who are content with little live day by day and treat any day like a feast day.”

61. “We are terrified of future catastrophes and are thrown into a continuous state of misery and anxiety, and for fear of becoming miserable, we never cease to be so, always panting for riches and never giving our souls or our bodies a moment’s peace. But those who are content with little live day by day and treat any day like a feast day.”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “The pattern of dreaming and deferral and compromise is an altogether familiar one: it is the epitome of a failed life.”

62. “The pattern of dreaming and deferral and compromise is an altogether familiar one: it is the epitome of a failed life.”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “Shakespeare grappled again and again with a deeply unsettling question: how is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant?”

63. “Shakespeare grappled again and again with a deeply unsettling question: how is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant?”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “In ordinary times, when a public figure is caught in a lie or simply reveals blatant ignorance of the truth, his standing is diminished. But these are not ordinary times. If a dispassionate bystander were to point out all of Cade’s grotesque distortions, mistakes, and downright lies, the crowd’s anger would light on the skeptic and not on Cade.”

64. “In ordinary times, when a public figure is caught in a lie or simply reveals blatant ignorance of the truth, his standing is diminished. But these are not ordinary times. If a dispassionate bystander were to point out all of Cade’s grotesque distortions, mistakes, and downright lies, the crowd’s anger would light on the skeptic and not on Cade.”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “Unappeasable desire and the fear of death are the principal obstacles to human happiness, but the obstacles can be surmounted through the exercise of reason.”

65. “Unappeasable desire and the fear of death are the principal obstacles to human happiness, but the obstacles can be surmounted through the exercise of reason.”

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Stephen Greenblatt Quote: “Freedom here has nothing to do with political liberty, or a notion of rights, or the license to say whatever he wished, or the ability to go wherever he chose. It’s rather the experience of withdrawing inwardly from the press of the wold, in which he himself was so ambitiously engaged. And in sphering himself in a space apart. For Poggio that experience was what it meant to immerse himself in ancient book. “I am free for reading.”

66. “Freedom here has nothing to do with political liberty, or a notion of rights, or the license to say whatever he wished, or the ability to go wherever he chose. It’s rather the experience of withdrawing inwardly from the press of the wold, in which he himself was so ambitiously engaged. And in sphering himself in a space apart. For Poggio that experience was what it meant to immerse himself in ancient book. “I am free for reading.”

— Stephen Greenblatt

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