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Joseph Conrad1 quote
One writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader. — Joseph Conrad · 1897Mark Twain1 quote
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. — Mark Twain · 1884Michel de Montaigne1 quote
It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580Sigmund Freud1 quote
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. — Sigmund Freud · 1899William Blake1 quote
Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read'st black where I read white. — William Blake · 1818