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 Sleep faster, we need the pillows.  When a man begins to understand himself, he begins to live. The object of war is to survive it. They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrow is in vain, For violets plucked, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again. The worst is not so long as we can say, "This is the worst." Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear. A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool. - Moliere The death of dogma is the birth of reality. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods. Hope! Of all the ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure. Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. Worry is a form of fear. This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. Give me good health and I'll take care of the rest. Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights. 
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