"Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence."
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"Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances"
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"Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views"
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"You must lose a fly to catch a trout."
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"I could be mistaken, but I believe the majority of artists are perverts, and that inspiration springs from the seat of perversity; that smooth stretch of consciousness between the balls and ass."
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"Humor is reason gone mad."
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"Thirteen at a table is unlucky only, when the hostess has only twelve chops."
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"It is easier to stay out than get out."
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"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."
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"Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence."
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"Man must be invented each day"
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"To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy."
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"Man is what he reads."
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"Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature."
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"Facts are the enemy of truth."
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"No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death."
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"Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven."
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"We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes"
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"Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit."
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"Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end."
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