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"No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject."
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"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."

"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."

"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."

"The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind."

"Let your actions sing the best melody of life so that everyone can joyfully listen to it."

"As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire."

"99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters."

"I write more with the words I leave out."

"Imagination is phenomenal."
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"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."

"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life.preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation."

"Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last."

"It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause."

"A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner, nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people."

"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"

"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
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