Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

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But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?

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Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.

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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

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No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

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He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

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I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.

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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

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Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

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