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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.   Art
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are th...  
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.  
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floa...  
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its cit...  
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tr...  
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live ...  
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expell...  
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to r...  
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is no...