Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

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Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

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

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For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.

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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

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Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

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

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I don't think in any language. I think in images.

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Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

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