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- Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader…
- A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute,…
- To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it…
- People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but…
- Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases…
- For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among…
- In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the…
- These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I…
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