As this is the simple truth—that to live is to feel oneself lost—he who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground.

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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

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Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

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Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Every life is, more or less, a ruin among whose debris we have to discover what the person ought to have been.

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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

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For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

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