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"To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified."
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"You don't have to boast for work that speaks for itself."
"False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit."
"Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it marinates in my soul over the hours, days, and weeks, the more flaws I start to find in it; and finally, the more I'm pressed to continue enhancing it. It essentially turns out that whatever thing a flawed and imperfect, human eye once thought was amazing begins to appear quite wretched. This is why, eternally, God cannot be impressed by mere talents or by mortal achievements. To perfect eyes, I imagine that great is not really that great; rather, humility is ultimately a human being's true greatness."
"If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility."
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."
"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."
"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."
"A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house."
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