The writer who can't at times throw away a thought about which another would have written dissertations, unworried whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.
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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump. . .G. C. Lichtenberg
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.
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Do we write books so that they shall merely be read Don't we also write them for employment in the household For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes.
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If it were true what in the end would be gained Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
G. C. Lichtenberg
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