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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing
The first rule, indeed by itself virtually a sufficient condition for good style, is to have something to say
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness
The most original modern authors are not so because they advance what is new, but simply because they know how to put what they have to say, as if it had never been said before
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author
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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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