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            January 9, 1842 
Journals (1838-1859)
        
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 177.
“Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.”
Source: My Name is Red
“with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“There is no original truth, only original error.”
                                        
                                        A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books 
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)
                                    
Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)
 
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                        