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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. — George Henry Lewes
- Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. — George Henry Lewes
- Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. — George Henry Lewes