In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.Andre Gide
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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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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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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