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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."

"Great sex is a natural drug."

"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love."But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"
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"Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore."


"It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now."


"To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face."
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