The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
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Happy are they who don't doubt themselves and whose pens fly across the page. I myself hesitate, I falter, I become angry and fearful, my drive diminishes as my taste improves, and I brood more over an ill-suited word than I rejoice over a well-proportion
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Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars.
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By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself
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