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"Approval or blame will follow in the world to come."
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"I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything."
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"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
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"I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off."
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"Children now expect their parents to audition for approval."
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"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
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"As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation."
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"Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval."
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"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."
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"The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster."
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"You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves."
Happiness
"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"
Art
"I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion."
Devotion
"I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done."
God
"There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals."
Impulses
"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."
People
"Approval or blame will follow in the world to come."
Approval
"Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy."
Heart
"A man endures misfortune without complaint."
Complaint
"I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can."
Imagination
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