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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

Theodor W. Adorno

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.