In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- because they were too obvious.

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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

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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.

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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

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