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Literature Quotes

"Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow."

"Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life"

"Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told."

"The better a work is the more it attracts criticism"

"The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream."

"Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable."

"What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books"

"I am as constant as the Northern Star"

"Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths "

"Great writers are not those who tell us we must aspire, but those who plunge us into the depths of being."

"As a writer you should not judge, you should understand."

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

"There is no friend as loyal as a book"

"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."

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