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“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
― Proust-M

“Every jackass going the roads thinks he has ideas.”
― James Joyce

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage