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The Razor's Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

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Feb 12, 2026 08:11AM

“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“Was auch immer geschieht: Nie dürft Ihr so tief sinken,
von dem Kakao, durch den man Euch zieht, auch noch zu trinken!”
― Erich Kästner

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“On n'est jamais si heureux ni si malheureux qu'on s'imagine.”
― François La Rochefoucauld, Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

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“National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.”
― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery

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