However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHowever great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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To do is to be.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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