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"All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue."
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"Religions get lost as people do."
People
"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."
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"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
Beauty
"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins."
Life
"Writers speak stench."
Writing
"Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins."
People
"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."
Nature
"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."
Being
"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt."
Life
"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
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"Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written."
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"The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone."
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"All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue."
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"He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things."
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"There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are."
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"It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project."
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"Patience is what is needed to see through any process of production."
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"Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition."
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"Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness."
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"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
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