Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
Our lives aren't prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art - underprocessed, underproduced - splinters and explodes.
In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
Literature precedes genre.
Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages.
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Literature has become my life.