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Northrop Frye: top 200 quotes
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Finitude (n.) is simply a way of describing how man becomes finite, that is, how he becomes genuinely human.
Death (n.) is that without which life would be uniform, as in the monotonous visions of heaven.
Death (n.) is all around us, even though we live in a darkness that cannot comprehend it.
Death (n.) is all that makes sense of life in time.
Death (n.) is not dead, for we cannot say that it ever died.
Death (n.) is not the opposite of life, but only the opposite of birth.
Death (n.) entered the world, not with the fall of Adam or Satan, but with the creation of the objective world by the birth of consciousness.
Death (n.) is the centre: in death the subjective centre disappears, which means also that it disappears into the centre.
Death (n.) is the one point at which man and nature really become identified and the only event in which the genuinely heroic aspect of human life emerges.
Death (n.) is the opposite of birth.
Death (n.) is utterly fair and without respect of persons.
Reality (n.) is rather the rubbish left over from previous human constructs.
Reality (n.) is something we've put there and could take away again, just as most illusions are creations, and have that sort of reality.
Reality (n.) is the gateway to reality.
Reality (n.) is totally nonexistent.
Reality (n.) is what's generated in the mind of the audience. There's no reality behind, in the wings or the dressing rooms.
Reality (n.) is whatever one's imagination can make sense of.
Imagination (n.) is not a world to see but a world to see by.
Consciousness (n.) is the unreality which transforms space.
Boredom (n.) is is ultimately a recognition that you bore yourself.
Anxiety (n.) is that which those who are not capable of faith have to settle with.
The University (n.) is not teaching but a form of intellectualized preaching.
The Bible (n.) is a teacher of the knowledge of myth; the poets teach the experience of it.
The Bible (n.) is the only work of literature that ever succeeded in getting beyond literature.
The Bible (n.) is the record of it, but in the creative imagination, which from palaeolithic times has been the central force driving humanity from mere survival into life more abundantly.
The Bible (n.) is not a structure of doctrine, not a structure of propositions, but a collection of stories making up one single story... namely the interrelationship of God and man.