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Suspended Judgments; Essays on Books and Sensations
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By John Cowper Powys 27 Apr, 2020
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THE ART OF DISCRIMINATION The world divides itself into people who can discriminate and people who cannot discriminate. This is the ultimate test of sensitiveness, and sensitiveness alone separates us and unites us. We all create or have created for ... Read more
THE ART OF DISCRIMINATION The world divides itself into people who can discriminate and people who cannot discriminate. This is the ultimate test of sensitiveness, and sensitiveness alone separates us and unites us. We all create or have created for us by the fatality of our temperament, a unique and individual universe. It is only by bringing into light the most secret and subtle elements of this self-contained system of things that we can find out where our lonely orbits touch. Like all primordial aspects of life, the situation is double-edged and contradictory. The further we emphasize and drag forth, out of their reluctant twilight, the lurking attractions, and antipathies of our destiny, the nearer, at once, and the more obscure, we find ourselves growing, to those about us. And the wisdom of the difficult game we are called upon to play lies in just this very antinomy, -in just this very contradiction-that to make ourselves better understood we have to emphasize our differences and to touch the universe of our friend we have to travel away from him, on a curve of free sky. Less
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John Cowper Powys (8 Oct 1872 – 17 June 1963) was a British philosopher, lecturer, novelist, literary critic, and poet. Although Powys published a collection of poems in 1896 and his first novel in...
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