In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

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Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from...

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from...

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of...

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of...

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Youth condemns; maturity condones

Youth condemns; maturity condones

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with...

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with...

All books are either dreams or swords.

All books are either dreams or swords.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which...

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which...

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you...

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you...

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core...

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core...

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which...

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which...

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery...

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery...

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics...

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics...

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a...

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a...

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical...

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical...

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and...

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and...

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.