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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

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And once the novelist has brought us to this state, in which, as in all purely mental states, every emotion is multiplied ten-fold, into which his boo...more

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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

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The fault I find in our journalism is that it forces us to take an interest in some fresh triviality or other everyday, whereas only three or four boo...more

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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

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This was to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some even greater variation, that she did not pass through those abnormal hours in whic...more

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We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one el...more

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Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by the great gentleman but by boors an...more

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I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs,...more

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People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycon...more

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As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known...more

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Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to this that those epithets were conventionally appl...more

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Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

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There can be no peace of mind in love since the advantage one has secured is never anything by a fresh starting-point for further desires.