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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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