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"With failure, you just try again."
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Personal Development
"Failure is a word unknown to me."
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Personal Development
"Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence."
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Personal Development
"The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure."
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Personal Development
"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."
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Personal Development
"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."
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Personal Development
"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."
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Personal Development
"Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure."
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Personal Development
"As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure."
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Personal Development
"This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy."
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Personal Development
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"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."
Genius
"Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly; ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling than to conjure away the burden and bitterness."
Art
"The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature."
Art
"You don't make art out of good intentions."
Art
"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"
Independence
"You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything."
Humanity
"But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart."
Loneliness
"There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things."
Art
"Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her-the opportunity, the courage."
Awareness
"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."
Art
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