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"Sadness comes from expectations. To be happy, adapt to everything and expect nothing."
"Self-respect is nothing but self-confidence."
"We live our lives with hope, intentions, and actions. Without hope, there will be no intention. Without intention, there will be no action."
"Everyone is looking for approval and appreciation even when they ask for criticism."
"Love makes the world go round, but sometimes you spin so much you end up dizzy."
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"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?"
"Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints."
"The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality."
"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
"To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live."
"I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all."
"If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it."
"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."
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