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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
The novelist does not long to see the_x000D_ lion eat grass. He realizes that one and_x000D_ the same God created the wolf and the_x000D_ lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his_x000D_ work was good.”
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
Sadness is a state of sin.
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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