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The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can...
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of...
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Our pleasures were simple-they included survival.
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Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
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For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or...
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Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person...
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The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
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Of no mortal say, ‘That man is happy,’ till vexed by no grievous ill...
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One had to cram all this stuff into one’s mind for the examinations, whether...
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected–in...