Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.
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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
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