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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
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Criticism Cultivate Hate Inspirational Motivational Public Yourself
Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
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The public is never pleased with what we do, wanting always a copy of what we have done.
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Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
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The joy of the young is to disobey.
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May the devil himself splatter you with dung.
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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.
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Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
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