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"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
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"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less."
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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
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"How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?"
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"Knowledge will help you to solve any problem."
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"In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be."
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"Getting an education is not only a matter of checking the boxes as your life progresses, it is a gift which can enrich every aspect of your world."
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"Knowledge is knowledge whether it teaches you construction or destruction."
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"Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind."
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"I don't want to believe. I want to know."
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"My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way."
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"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
Art
"International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge."
Knowledge
"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
Communication
"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
Man
"We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy."
Comfort
"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."
Soul
"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
Destruction
"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs."
Love
"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
Birds
"Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth."
Earth
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