"The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life."
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"Evil is whatever distracts."
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"Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment."
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"The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon."
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"The eye is the notebook of the poet."
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"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after."
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"A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise."
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"A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man."
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"The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility."
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"There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it."
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"I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper."
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"A man is a poor creature compared to a woman."
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"During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions."
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"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."
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"Reverence is fatal to literature."
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"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
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"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something."
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"The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice."
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"Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren."
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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
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