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"I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men."
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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
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"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language."
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"Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
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"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."
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"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."
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"Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind."
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"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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"I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I've always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I've always recognized it at once-and it's the only quality I respect in men. I chose my friends by that...A self-sufficient ego. Nothing else matters."
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."
Life
"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
Inspirational
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
Relationship
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
Attitude
"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness."
Spiritual
"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it."
Happiness
"True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
Wisdom
"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."
Attitude
"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision."
Strength
"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
Education
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