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"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."
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"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."

"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."

"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"

"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."

"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"

"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."

"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
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"Learn to experience yourself without judging yourself."

"Be yourself, that is all there is."

"All day long, no one is at fault for anything. Whatever faults we see; we see them because of our own defects."

"When we learn of Him, we see the things that we do wrong, we see what things need to be corrected in our way of thinking and our way of living."

"Your inner world creates your outer world."

"We, ignorant of ourselves,Beg often our own harms, which the wise powersDeny us for our good; so find we profitBy losing of our prayers."

"The reason for our limitation is only inside us."

"I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55."

"It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon."

"To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference."
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