“Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.”
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
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