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"Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not."
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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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"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."
"My life transformed by making myself a reader."
"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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"He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety."
"A circle drawn on a blackboard, a right triangle, a rhombus--all these are forms we can fully intuit; Ireneo could do the same with the stormy mane of a young colt, a small herd of cattle on a mountainside, a flickering fire and its uncountable ashes, and the many faces of a dead man at a wake. I have no idea how many stars he saw in the sky."
"I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech."
"Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it."
"The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information."
"We are our memory,we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,that pile of broken mirrors."
"Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?"
"The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds."
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