Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. The Name of The Rose
I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. Mansfield Park
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist’s business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him. Reflections on Literature and Morality
The vine bears three bunches of grapes: the first is that of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, the third of violence. Fragment
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