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“No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.”
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“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”
― Sesame and Lilies
― Sesame and Lilies
“No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.”
― Villette
― Villette
Around the World in 80 Books
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