When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

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Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

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My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

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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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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

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My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

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How else can one threaten, other than with death? The interesting, the original thing, would be to threaten someone with immortality.

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