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"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
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"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."
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"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."
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"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."
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"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
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