Quote #7469
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What...
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Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to...
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There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has...
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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity-or, which is just as...
Quote #13888
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
Quote #20583
There is one thing that matters — to set a chime of words tinkling...
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How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for...
Quote #3877
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Quote #17336
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there’s no help in truth