"All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation...."
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"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in..."
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"Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably..."
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"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders..."
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"Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby...."
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"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock...."
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"He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner..."
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"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses..."
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"It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to..."
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"No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no..."
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"Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to..."
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"Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him..."
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"The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth,..."
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"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying..."
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"The book borrower . . . proves himself to be an inveterate collector of..."
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"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to..."
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"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope...."
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"These are days when no one should rely unduly on his..."
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"To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright...."
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"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an..."
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