Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
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One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
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Success as I see it, is a result, not a goal.
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By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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