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“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
― Francois Mauriac

“There is no such thing as happy music.”
― Franz Schubert

“In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.”
― Thomas Mann

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!”
― John Steinbeck

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince