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"I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world."
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"You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures."
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"The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom."
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"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
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"Never miss day without a walk."
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"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."
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"Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar."
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"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
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"The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit."
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"It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring."
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"I believe in a glamorous life. I believe in the everyday application of the outrageous."
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"We are willing to believe anything other than the truth."
Philosophy
"Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person."
Literature
"Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art."
Art
"People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots."
Humor
"But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred."
Mortality
"Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it."
Literature
"Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself."
Determination
"Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either."
Inspirational
"After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels."
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"One mustn't dream of one's future, one must earn it."
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