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"Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!"
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"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."
"[B]eauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor."
"The voice of beauty speaks softly, it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls."
"The more you appreciate the things of beauty all around you, the more beautiful things will fill your life."
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"In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications."
"I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty."
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"The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give."
"The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime."
"I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties."
"Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!"
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