Quote #12356
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few...
Quote #29089
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist...
Quote #23483
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and...
Quote #26007
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills...
Quote #5011
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Quote #13114
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what...
Quote #7344
Sweet is war to those who know it not.
Quote #33279
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Quote #11544
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love...