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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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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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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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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
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