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"Read much, but not many books."
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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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"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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"My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected."
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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
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"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
Fact
"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
Man
"Of all lies, art is the least untrue."
Art
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
Faith
"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."
Travel
"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."
Nature
"One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us."
Existence
"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."
Friendship
"The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it."
Art
"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
Being
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