Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
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When one doesn't know how to write, a novel comes easier than a quotation.
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Posted by: Cheope
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Certain books seem to have been written not so that we may learn from them, but so that it may be demonstrated that the author knew something.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book..
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Posted by: Davide Bianco
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Definition of a classic: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
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Excessive literary production is a social offense.
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Posted by: Luca Englaro
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The task was to interpret the given sensations as signs of so many laws and ideas, by trying to think - that is to say to draw forth from the shadow - what I had merely felt, by trying to convert it into its spiritual equivalent.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
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Posted by: Mela Favale
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It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
from the book "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.
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Posted by: Amore Perfetto
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One believes that when the things are good, when they have taken the course of happiness, the road will be always in slope, it's enough to give more boost and the pleasure increases, it becomes breathtaking, and we will be more and more happy until we reach the trampoline of the fortune and we fly in the nirvana of the perfect ass.
It's not like this.
Quickly humps, bumps, pebbles in the middle of the street, and swerves outside the hairpin curves. And in front of us a great climb where you don't see the top.
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