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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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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"The proper study of mankind is books."
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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."
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"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."
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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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"You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere."
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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape."
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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."
Truth
"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
Men
"Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin."
Time
"Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos."
Chaos
"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
Being
"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion."
Compassion
"Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth."
God
"Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself."
Nature
"All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be."
Men
"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."
Poetry
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