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Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.
he is always searching for new combinations, new associations and adaptations, new shades of meaning proper to the time.
It is a fact that a man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
—I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.
A work of art must not be a task or an effort; it must not be undertaken against one’s will. It is meant to give pleasure, to entertain and enliven. If it does not have this effect on a reader, he must put it down and turn to something else.
