"There is no work of art that is without short cuts."
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"God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved."
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"The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death."
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"The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes."
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"The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh."
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"I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts."
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"If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!"
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"The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation."
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"What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance."
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"An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it."
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"The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach."
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"I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent."
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