Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
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Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
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