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“The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
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― Françoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres: Ecriture et reception (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2004:12)
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― Françoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres: Ecriture et reception (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2004:12)
“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
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“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― Requiem for a Nun
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