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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

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Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

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A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...more

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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

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Listen—I want to run all my life, screaming at the top of my lungs. Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don’...more

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She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.

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In this course I have tried to reveal the mechanism of those wonderful toys — literary masterpieces. I have tried to make of you good readers who read...more

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Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I sh...more

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Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain — the brain, that stomach ...more

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You have to be an artist and a madman...

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We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events...more

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Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece