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“When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.”
― Will You Be There?
― Will You Be There?
“He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.”
― Life is Elsewhere
― Life is Elsewhere
“Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?”
― Life is Elsewhere
― Life is Elsewhere
“Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)”
― Life is Elsewhere
― Life is Elsewhere
“The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
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