Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

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Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

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Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

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The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

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Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

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All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

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A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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