I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

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But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?

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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

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Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, & which life reveals is the most living proof of our immortality.

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Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

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