Not to find one’s way around a city does not mean much. But to lose one’s way in a city, as one loses one’s way in a forest, requires some schooling.
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
In every case the storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers.
Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.
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