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"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
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"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly."
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"Experience teaches only the teachable."
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."
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"The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything."
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"In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low."
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"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
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"If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy."
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"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
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