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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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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
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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!"
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."
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"The proper study of mankind is books."
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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
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"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."
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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do."
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"The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion."
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"Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth."
God
"Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original."
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"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation."
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"Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem."
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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."
Being
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