Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

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There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.

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Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

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Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

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The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

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Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

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I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

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