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Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living. - Author object (437)

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings? - Author object (437)

An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space. - Author object (437)

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. - Author object (437)

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. - Author object (437)

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. - Author object (437)

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. - Author object (437)

Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins - Author object (437)

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. - Author object (437)

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. - Author object (437)

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. - Author object (437)

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find. - Author object (437)

Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work. - Author object (437)

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it - Author object (437)

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. - Author object (437)

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. - Author object (437)

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. - Author object (337)

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall. - Author object (337)

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. - Author object (337)

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you. - Author object (337)