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"The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts."
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"Doubters only doubt what they doubt."

"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."

"Doubt never brings anything better, Doubt only gets the goodies of doubt! Shake your doubt!"

"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him."

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."

"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
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