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"A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin."
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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present."


"Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization."


"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."


"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
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