Joseph Joubert Quotes on Writing
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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Style is the thought itself.
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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of the whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of large work.
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.