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"The point of good writing is knowing when to stop."

"Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition- and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, evEryThing is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scare here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking TO do- clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth."

"Brighten your picture! Refuse to be blurred, agree to be bright!"

"Listen to all, believe few, count on some, but trust none."

"Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!"

"You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life."

"If it is only one thing in life that you have or allowed to discover, then it must be your significance."
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"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."


"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."


"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."


"None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting."
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