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"Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not."
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"My books, my paradise!"
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"My life is build around books."
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"I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much."
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"My life transformed by making myself a reader."
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"Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread."
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"Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not."
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"Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering."
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"Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious. There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived in act and circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as if it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own."
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"My wish is to create a huge library of books."
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"When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling."
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"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."
Existence
"Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.Little did they suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's frail figure would be, for the future, no less poetic than Sinbad's haunts or Ariosto's vast geographies.For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end."
Literature
"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
Man
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
Religion
"Life itself is a quotation."
Life
"We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods."
Mythology
"He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite."
Philosophy
"It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death."
Mortality
"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
Reading
"So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature."
Art
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