Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
JOSEPH CONRADI like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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