I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
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seventeenth, poetry.
Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
