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"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."

"My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing."

"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."

"A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind."

"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."

"Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore."

"Live with style and passion, don't seek the permission of others."
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"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room."

"The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance. You must take your chance, boy. The choice has been all yours."

"You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care."

"Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now."

"People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know."

"The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it."

"The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured."

"Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up."
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