The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. René Descartes

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

René Descartes

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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. Henry David Thoreau Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. Charles Baudelaire
I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality. James Joyce Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. Laurence Sterne

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