The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

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If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it...

If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it...

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary...

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary...

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment;...

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment;...

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he...

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he...

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort...

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort...

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born...

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born...

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you...

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you...

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters...

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters...

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to...

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to...

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

Sprinkle joy.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth...

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth...