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"California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort."
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"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."
Art
"Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told."
Love
"Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it."
Sex
"Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man."
Psychology
"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
World
"The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind."
Art
"The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens."
Soul
"So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness."
Happiness
"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread."
Beauty
"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."
Democracy
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"Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort."
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"I tried your best and it didn't work, so now I'm going to try my best and I'm sure that I'll succeed!"
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Personal Development
"Diligence always makes a person rich."
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Personal Development
"Do not stop giving your soul-best."
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Personal Development
"If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."
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Personal Development
"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."
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Personal Development
"Success comes before work only in the dictionary."
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Personal Development
"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."
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Personal Development
"Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful."
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Personal Development
"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
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