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Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages Quotes: It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.
         

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.


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It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.
         



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