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"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite."
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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."

"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."

"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."

"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."

"My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books."
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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."
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"One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one."
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