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"Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
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"Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home."
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"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."
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"I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something."
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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
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"Books-oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."
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"Books are a narcotic."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"The proper study of mankind is books."
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"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."
Delight
"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."
Dream
"My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."
Time
"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."
Speech
"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in."
Conflict
"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."
Persistence
"The limit of every pain is an even greater pain."
Pain
"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
Paradise
"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one."
Life
"Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh."
Consciousness
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