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"Monsieur Foinet got up and made as if to go, but he changed his mind, and, stopping, put his hand on Philip's shoulder."But if you were going to ask me my advice, I should say: take your courage in both hands and try your luck at something else. It sounds very hard, but let me tell you this: I would give all I have in the world if someone had given me that advice when I was your age and I had taken it."Philip looked up at him with surprise. The master forced his lips into a smile, but his eyes remained grave and sad."It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it's too late. It does not improve the temper."He gave a little laugh as he said the last words and quickly walked out of the room."
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"Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set."
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"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
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"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
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"Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket."
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"When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill."
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"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."
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"It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice."
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"It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat."
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"I do not attachany exaggerated importance to my poetical works. Life isthere to be lived rather than to be written about. My aimis to search out the manifold experience that it offers,wringing from each moment what of emotion it presents.I look upon my writing as a graceful accomplishmentwhich does not absorb but rather adds pleasure toexistence. And as for posterity-damn posterity."
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"It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it."
Choice
"I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do."
Creativity
"A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute."
Humor
"If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself."
Integrity
"Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour."
Hope
"If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write."
Creativity
"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."
Thought
"I began to meditate upon the writer's life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty and the world's indifference; then, having achieved a measure of success, he must submit to a good grace of its hazards...But he has one compensation, Whenever he has anything on his mind, whether it be a harassing reflection, grief at the death of a friend, unrequited love, wounded pride, anger at the treachery of someone to whom he has shown kindness, in short any emotion or any perplexing thought, he has only to put it down in black and white, using it as a theme of a story or the decoration of an essay, to forget all about it. He is the only free man."
Freedom
"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"
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