Temple of Literature

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    The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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    After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
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    [The] attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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