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To invent new uses for words, uses sometimes absurd, to help slow down the tight use of usual language forms.

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When one doesn't know how to write, a novel comes easier than a quotation.

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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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Definition of a classic: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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Excessive literary production is a social offense.

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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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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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It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.