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I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
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Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction. No read in order to live.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Stupidity is something unshakable, nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it, it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius is above all force.
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