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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.
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Author Beginning End Experience Lying Ourselves Story Writing
Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Death Life Myself See Thinking Tree Wind
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
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Afraid Artist Deep Desire Hope
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Destruction Hate Small Vice World
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
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Art Life Work Yourself
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
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Adventure Beautiful Body Conscious Life Live Oneself
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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Appreciation Fruit Learning Ourselves Time Tree
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Artist Guess Observation Select
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it.
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Act Gun Introduction Weapon Yourself
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Boredom Lying People Secret
Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
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Age Education Learning Time Wisdom
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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Existence Judgement Mortal Ourselves Person Suitable
Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.
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Lose Love Reason Try Yourself
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it’s dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can’t live without it.
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Live Love Myself Neck Stone
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death.
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Death Different Man Philosophy Wisdom
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Calculation Oneself Selfish

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