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The age of the book is almost gone.
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There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
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Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.
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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity do not easily resume life.
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Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen.
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Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.
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For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.
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