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giovanna
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I am a sick man. . . . I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased.
“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
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“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
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“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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