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An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

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The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.
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Actor Artist Love Passion Teacher Work
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read – my own or other people’s works – it all seems to me not short enough.
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Myself People Reading Short Work
Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.
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Himself Interest Live Person Reality Secret
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
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Conception Ourselves Perspective World
If I had listened to the critics I’d have died drunk in the gutter
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Death Drink Listening Myself
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.
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Animal Growth Human Love Nature
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
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Answer Artist Question Role
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
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Afraid Lonely Marriage Yourself
It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
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Flow Freedom Himself Old Person Soul Writing
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.
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Artist Guess Observation Select
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
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Boredom Lying People Secret
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
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Animal Horse Interval Myself Smell Understand
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don’t have a passport.
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Feeling Knowledge Language Yourself
Three o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy.
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Happiness Morning Myself Nature Night Sleep
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
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Money Person
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.
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Calculation Oneself Selfish
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
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Choice Drink Fine Myself Weather
I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.
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Animal Elephant Failure Feeling Myself Notice
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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Artist Confusion Correct Obligation Problem Solve Yourself
In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit.
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Change Permanent Spirit Universe
When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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Action Grace Motion Oneself Person
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
A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.
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Dog Goodness Guilty Person
If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
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Cure Myself Offering People Remedy Thinking
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
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Clothes Himself Person Rate Soul Thinking
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
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Foolish Life Meaning Silly Strain Strive Stupidity
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

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