"The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it."

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"The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict."

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"Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation."

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"The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion"

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"I Like this quote I dislike this quote"Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits"