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"The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."
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"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
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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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"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."
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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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"One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters."
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"Like someone excitedly relating a story, only to find the words petering out, the path gets narrower the further I go, the undergrowth taking over."
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"I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else."
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"We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."
Self-Love
"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."
Age
"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."
People
"Consult duty not events."
Duty
"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it."
Life
"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."
Conscience
"Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce."
Religion
"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."
Poetry
"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."
Love
"We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."
Self-Love
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