All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

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