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Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other

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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.

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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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Except for two or three older writers, all modern literature seems to me not literature but some sort of handicraft, which exists only so as to be enc...more

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I'm not saying that French books are talented, and intelligent, and noble. They don't satisfy me either. But they're less boring than the Russian ones...more

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As a rule, however fine and deep a phrase may be, it only affects the indifferent, and cannot fully satisfy those who are happy or unhappy; that is wh...more

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In all nature there seemed to be a feeling of hopelessness and pain. The earth, like a ruined woman sitting alone in a dark room and trying not to thi...more