What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to…

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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does...

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does...

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit...

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit...

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than...

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than...

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in...

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in...

The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely...

The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre...

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre...

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain...

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in...

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in...

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what...

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what...

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own...

The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own...

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer...

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer...