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“To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“The pleasure of travel - existing as it largely does only in recollection and almost never in the present, at the actual moment when it is taking place-
Besides, he considered travel to be pointless, believing that the imagination could easily compensate for the vulgar reality of actual experience.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

“It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life