When a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

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Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

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Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

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If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women...

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There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.

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Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

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It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

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Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

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For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

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