“There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics.”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

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“I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.”

― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down to some one simple emotion or sensation of the body.”

― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

“I have seen Negro children who really cannot learn, particularly those who in their gelatin plate of babyness have been told they were inferior.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

“in order to discover that we are in love, even perhaps in order to fall in love, the day of separation needs to arrive.”

― Marcel Proust, The Fugitive

“most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages—a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Unfortunately, yes; the people we care for most are not good for us when we are ill.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar

“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of anybody else. Everything is so insipid, so uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object!”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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