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"How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?"

"So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone."

"Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people's fires. Let is stop by being kind and forgiving like water."

"Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people's fires. Let us stop it by being kind and forgiving like water."

"He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him."
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"For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture."

"What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?"

"To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished."

"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal."

"I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me."

"Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country."

"Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third."
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