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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
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Personal Development
"I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss."
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Personal Development
"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
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Personal Development
"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."
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Personal Development
"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings."
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Personal Development
"A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea."
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Personal Development
"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."
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Personal Development
"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."
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Personal Development
"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man."
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Personal Development
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."
Creativity
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
Art
"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."
Wisdom
"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."
Success
"They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better."
Creativity
"Love is the greatest refreshment in life."
Love
"When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it."
Existence
"You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."
Truth
"Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night a flower everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand."
Expression
"Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
Family
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