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A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once
Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence
If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it
The pen is the tongue of the mind
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard
To hold a pen is to be at war
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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