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"One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
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"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."
Art
"Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told."
Love
"Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it."
Sex
"Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man."
Psychology
"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
World
"The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind."
Art
"The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens."
Soul
"So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness."
Happiness
"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread."
Beauty
"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."
Democracy
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
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"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for."
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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
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Personal Development
"I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger."
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Personal Development
"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
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