The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA book should be luminous not voluminous.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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