“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
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The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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