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Art and Culture
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Albert Camus
NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century
4.8 · 60 votes · 92 reads
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Various
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone de Beauvoir
NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century
3.5 · 32 votes · 163 reads
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Various
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Umberto Eco
NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century
3.4 · 56 votes · 0 reads
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Society
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
Stendhal
NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century
3.8 · 40 votes · 143 reads
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Time
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
Charles Dickens
NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century
3.2 · 16 votes · 98 reads
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Virtues
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell
NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century
4.2 · 20 votes · 187 reads
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Virtues
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Pearl S. Buck
NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century
3.6 · 30 votes · 98 reads
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Virtues
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Joseph Conrad
NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century
4.2 · 8 votes · 138 reads
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Virtues
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Henry Fielding
NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century
4.8 · 39 votes · 148 reads
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Society
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century
3.4 · 22 votes · 81 reads
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