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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

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History