Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
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Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
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