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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter ...  
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.  
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incompar...  
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a ba...  
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.  
It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the pre...  
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It...  
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed ...  
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded a...  
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to ...  
The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality i...  
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis ...  
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, th...  
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much...  
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as ...  
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.  
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was e...  
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is compose...