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• Bad literature is a form of treason.
• After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of…
• I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks…
• Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.
• Man is what he reads.
• Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by…
• For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the…
• How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
• Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then…
• Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
• For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
• For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure…

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