"Young men in meetings put in common nothing but their mediocrity."

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“The individual is nothing, society is everything" .”

“The reader collaborates with the author in every book", or "The reader is co-author in every book”

“What distinguishes an argument from a play upon words, is that the latter cannot be translated.”

“A strange rage this modern mania to give a common manner to all minds and to destroy individuality.”

“There is no reality for me but pure thought. Minds alone are interesting.”

“Reality, it cannot be repeated too often, varies with every one of us.”

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