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 OF READING AND WRITING

" Of all that is written I love only that which the writer wrote with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt learn that blood is spirit.

It is not easily possible to understand other people's blood. I hate the reading idlers.

He who knoweth the reader doth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers and spirit itself will stink.

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is becoming mob.

He who writeth in blood and apophthegms seeketh not to be read, but to be learnt by heart.

In the mountains the shortest way is from summit to summit : but for that thou needst long legs. Apoph- thegms shall be summits, and they who are spoken unto, great ones and tall.

The air rarefied and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of a gay wickedness : these agree well together.

I desire to have goblins round me, for I am brave.

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