“The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.”
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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