Quote #10

The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.

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  2. No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
  3. C'est avec de beaux sentiments qu'on fait de la mauvaise litterature.
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  5. Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
  6. The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
  7. The most decisive actions of our life-I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future-are, more often than not, …
  8. A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

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