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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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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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"I regret all of my books."
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"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
Performance
"Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals."
Personal Development
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
Books
"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
War
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
Age
"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
Nature
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
Fortune
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
People
"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
Money
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
Knowledge
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