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• Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than…
• I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine.
• The tiny madman in his padded cell.
• There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix…
• The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring…
• Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
• Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
• My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
• I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
• The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between…
• A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
• Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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