In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
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