The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

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I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

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A light here required a shadow there.

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Love had a thousand shapes.

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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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