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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life...
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The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster.
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Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
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Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds...
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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is...
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The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut...
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I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay...
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You don’t have to be old in America to say of a world you...
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A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
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What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.