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“Life is more hellish than hell itself.”
― Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
― Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
“Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.”
― Crisis
― Crisis
“Some people are fond of horses, others of wild animals; in my case, I have been possessed since childhood by a prodigious desire to buy and own books.”
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“To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”
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“Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.”
― Là-Bas
― Là-Bas
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