To learn to see -- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. Twilight of the Idols
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. The Counterfeiters
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. Oliver Twist
"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read. Following the Equator
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