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A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

April is the cruellest month.

He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.

I’m skeptical that the novel will be ‘re-invented.’

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Call me Ishmael.

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