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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

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Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

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Where children are, there is the golden age.

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Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

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Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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